| ID | 153080 |
| Title Proper | Strategic culture as a constraint |
| Other Title Information | intelligence analysis, memory and organizational learning in the social sciences and history |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Aldrich, Richard J |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Academics working on intelligence failure are famous for their pessimism. This paper is more optimistic and sees strategic culture as helpfully constraining the likely options of our enemies. It suggests that there is a wealth of innovative work here that we might exploit here to assist with strategic estimates and argues that it is puzzling that we have not tried to harness it before in a more programmatic way. It examines sets of different but related ideas about notions of strategic culture, historical analogies and social learning that have been developed by leading political scientists and then asks what they might contribute to improved intelligence analysis. |
| `In' analytical Note | Intelligence and National Security Vol. 32, No.5; Aug 2017: p.625-635 |
| Journal Source | Intelligence and National Security Vol: 32 No 5 |
| Key Words | Social Sciences ; Strategic Culture ; Intelligence Analysis ; History ; Memory and Organizational Learning |