Summary

In this chapter, we discussed how the results of the collection operation, the hunting and pivoting exercises, and the results of technical analysis should be reviewed and aligned to the original knowledge gaps the organization had and interpreted into an intelligence requirement. Then, we discussed the key differences between data, information, and intelligence. We moved on to discuss critical thinking and reasoning by examining critical thinking, cognitive biases, and the foundation of analytic judgments by introducing some analytic methods. We moved on to discuss examples of determining actor motives and intentions before, finally, discussing analytic confidence and likeliness. Additionally, we talked about the metadata tagging of your intelligence to create an organization's ground truth of intelligence. We ended the chapter by talking about some analytic standards to consider before dissemination.

In the next chapter, we will focus on how different organization...