Advanced Issues in Intelligence

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This course provides students studying the intelligence field a deeper knowledge of the issues that may be facing the intelligence community. This course ranges in complexity from orientation-type instruction on successes and failures in intelligence through history to various types of analysis on concepts like intelligence - led policing, how to share information, how to maintain appropriate and successful partnerships across agencies, how individuals are radicalized and recruited into gangs or groups, transnational issues, how to "follow money" or conduct financial analysis, how the enemy uses denial and deception techniques to gain an upper hand, how to appropriately craft a wide array of intelligence products and properly security them, as well as exposure to prediction methods and open source analysis. This course will teach and guide students on how to make recommendations to senior leaders relating to analytical findings.