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Intelligence studies

the failure of analysis or warning to inform policy in time, argued to be inevitable because the problems of ambiguity and perception cannot be fully engineered away.

In intelligence studies, intelligence failure refers to the failure of analysis or warning to inform policy in time, argued to be inevitable because the problems of ambiguity and perception cannot be fully engineered away. This meaning comes from Betts (1978) in World Politics.[1]

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ambiguity5 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, five constructs failure4 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs intelligence6 fields · 14 citationsjingle · one name, six constructs

References

Betts, R. K. (1978). Analysis, War, and Decision: Why Intelligence Failures Are Inevitable. World Politics, 31(1), 61-89. https://doi.org/10.2307/2009967

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