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Another View of S&T Analysis
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S&T Analysis
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| Scientific and Technical Intelligence has come a long way since the beginning days described in the opening of Dr. Clark's article. In the scope and importance of problems addressed and in the number of people engaged in it, it is a major influence in governmental decision making. In the quality and sophistication of some of its work, S&T Intelligence has approached the status of a major scientific discipline. |
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| What is sorely needed to insure continued advances in S&T Intelligence, it has long seemed to me, is a critical mechanism-some means of defining standards and systematically judging our work against those standards. |
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| Formal criticism exists in most other fields of human endeavor. The arts and literature, journalism, science, foreign policy, architecture, you name it-all have an established procedure, be it internal or external, for criticism. S&T Intelligence, and indeed intelligence as a whole, is mature enough-and Lord knows, influential enough in this country-to benefit as much from formal criticism as other disciplines. |
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| Dr. Clark, whether intentionally or not, touches at many points in his article, on the need for criticism in intelligence. How are we (or more importantly our consumers) to tell the good from the bad, the assertive from the analytical; the casual from the rigorous, the valuable from the misdirected? |
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| I hope the editors of Studies will join me in calling for a discussion in these pages of the need for criticism in intelligence and the form it should take. |
Posted: May 08, 2007 08:43 AM
Last Updated: May 08, 2007 08:43 AM
Last Reviewed: May 08, 2007 08:43 AM
