Consortium for the Study of Intelligence
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The Consortium for the Study of Intelligence was founded in 1979 as a project of the National Strategy Information Center.
The Future of US Intelligence
In 1996, two senior associates at the National Strategy Information Centre, Abram Shulsky and Gary Schmitt produced a report for the Consortium entitled The Future of US Intelligence.
- The document recommended the establishment of "competing analytic centers" with "different points of view" that could "provide policymakers better protection against new 'Pearl Harbors', ie, against being surprised". Rather than a narrow focus on information collection, "intelligence analysis must ... make it more relevant to policymakers by emphasizing the forces that shape a given situation", the authors contend.
- The study's overall conclusion was that the "future of intelligence" depended on building a new model that would offer "greater flexibility in the collection process" and produce the "big picture" of security threats. Ultimately, Shulsky and Schmitt concluded, the purpose of analysis is to help the policymaker shape the future, not predict it. Intelligence analysis should go beyond simply identifying security threats and assessing the military capabilities of a present or future enemy or a competitor nation; it should be "opportunity analysis" that anticipates chances to advance US interests. [1]
The report's recommendations have been as prefiguring the strategy which Shulsky would pursue as director of the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans.
Founding Members, 1979
- Richard Betts, Columbia University
- Richard Bissell, Foreign Policy Research Institute
- Adda Bozeman, Sarah Lawrence College
- Ray Cline, Georgetown University
- Stephen Gibert, Georgetown University
- Roy Godson, Georgetown University
- Samuel Huntington, Harvard University
- John Norton Moore, University of Virginia
- Myres McDougal, Yale University
- Robert Nisbet, American Enterprise Institute
- Robert Pfaltzgraff, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
- Richard Pipes, Harvard University
- Antonin Scalia, University of Chicago
- Paul Seabury, University of California, Berkeley
- Richard Starr, Hoover Institution
- Frank Trager, New York University
- Allen Weinstein, Smith College
- James Q. Wilson, Harvard University [2]
Staff
Director of Research
Notes
- ↑ The neo-con philosophy of intelligenceAsia Times, February 19, 2004.
- ↑ Consortium for the Study of Intelligence - Founding members
