Description
What is intelligence - why is it so hard to define, and why is there no systematic theory of intelligence? Classic intelligence analysis is based on an inference between history and the future - and this has led to a restriction in how we can perceive new threats, and new variations of threats. Now, Kjetil Anders Hatlebrekke rethinks intelligence analysis, arguing that good intelligence is based on understanding the threats that appear beyond our experience, and are therefore the most dangerous to society.
Author: Kjetil Anders Hatlebrekke
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 02/16/2021
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781474481830
ISBN10: 1474481833
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Security (National & International)
- Political Science | Intelligence & Espionage
- Political Science | Terrorism
About the Author
Kjetil Anders Hatlebrekke is Specialist Director Intelligence Development in the Norwegian Intelligence Service and former Associate Professor at the Norwegian Defence Intelligence School. He earned his PhD from King´s College, London. Hatlebrekke has served in the Norwegian Armed Forces since 1990, and in the Intelligence Service for the last 24 years. He has operational experience from Bosnia, Kosovo, the Middle East and Afghanistan. In Afghanistan he served as an intelligence officer in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Anaconda. The unit he was in was awarded the US Navy Presidential Unit Citation. Hatlebrekke has been awarded with the Norwegian Intelligence Service's Medal of Merit, and he was the first to be awarded it publicly.