What is Strategic Intelligence?

Overview

Intelligence is a key ingredient in planning and implementing successful foreign and national security policies, but its significance is often insufficiently recognized and is not usually taught systematically, either in academic or in professional development. This course offers a real-world comparative view, both from above and from ground level, of the intelligence enterprise: what it is, what it does and doesn’t do, where it fits, how it really works, and how it influences policy, the operation, and the success of government. Participants will be exposed to the definitions of intelligence, the intelligence cycle, the different means of collection, and the interrelationship of intelligence and policy, as well as uses and misuses of intelligence.

This course is the first part of a two-part series, with the second course being "Intelligence in National Security Policymaking". It's important to note that there are no prerequisites for this course. The two-part series replaces the existing course titled Intelligence in Strategy and National Security Policymaking.

Learning Outcomes

• Explain the role of an intelligence community
• Appreciate the uses, capabilities and limitations of intelligence
• Identify the place and uses of intelligence in the policy making enterprise

Audience

• Officials and subject matter experts from government, especially the intelligence community and those whose work requires interface with intelligence material or the intelligence community
• NGOs and relevant private sector bodies, graduate students
• Professionals who seek a deeper understanding of the importance of intelligence in the governing and decision-making process

Duration

Cost

• $1095 (plus tax)

Featured Instructor

Joshua Krasna retired in 2017 after 30 years of government service in Israel, including as a strategic planner, senior Middle East and strategic analyst, and diplomat. He served as counselor at the Israeli embassy in Ottawa, and was an instructor and team leader at the Israel National Defense College. Joshua Krasna is Director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Center for Emerging Energy Politics in the Middle East, a Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the New York University Center for Global Affairs.

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