Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!bu.edu!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: wallfesh@drcvax.af.mil (SANDE WALLFESH) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Military analysts Message-ID: <1991Jan12.013026.25741@cbnews.att.com> Date: 12 Jan 91 01:30:26 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 17 Approved: military@att.att.com From: "SANDE WALLFESH" > From: bjohnson@athena.mit.edu (Brett W Johnson) > What kind of books are available in the open literature that would > prepare one to be a military/intelligence analyst? I read a fair One title of potential interest is _Evidence and Inference for the Intelligence Analyst_ by David Schum, University Press of America, 1987. Schum's two volumes, intended for intelligence analysts and persons who support intelligence analysis, focus on the inferential process of drawing conclusions from evidence. Sande Wallfesh | "If it's stupid but works, it isn't Dynamics Research | stupid." -- Amphibious Warfare wallfesh@drcvax.af.mil | Review, Spring '89