| ID | 188267 |
| Title Proper | What Strategic Analysts and Planners for National Security Need to Know |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Ben-Haim, Yakov |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Strategic analysts and planners need distinct capabilities to include extensive disciplinary expertise and a broad understanding of the world and methodological expertise for dealing with innovation, discovery, and surprise. Specifically, the analyst needs to evaluate the robustness of a policy to the uncertainty of an assessment. The analyst must have both topical expertise in the disciplines underlying the analysis, as well as decision-theoretic expertise in managing uncertainty. This is demonstrated by applying info-gap decision theory and the concept of robust-satisficing to the analysis of policy in response to al-Qaeda prior to 11 September 2001, which illustrates the combination of topical and decision-theoretic expertise. |
| `In' analytical Note | International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence Vol. 35, No.1; Spring 2022: p.57-72 |
| Journal Source | International Journal of Intelligence and Counter Intelligence Vol: 35 No 1 |
| Key Words | National Security ; Strategic Planning in National Security |