... sponsored by the DI’s Global Futures Partnership in May 2002, Kent Center Research Scholar Jack Davis reminds us that warning is an analytic discipl... ...urance of good warning analysis.” Jack Davis has been associated with CIA since 1956, first as an employee and since 1990 as an independent con... ...sources favors tactical over strategic warning. The official doctrine of CIA and other Intelligence Community analytic units is that every analyst... ...ment support were generously defined as tactical warning, and all forms of research and estimative work were similarly defined as strategic warning.... ...velopments that analysts judge to be potentially damaging but unlikely. CIA’s Directorate of Intelligence in recent years, in response to criticis... ...m the pressures of their home unit. 6. Expand Tradecraft Training and Research Since strategic warning analysis often focuses on depicting p... ...nce Estimates and other assessments, and (2) concern that periodic warning reports showed inadequate sensitivity to the wrenching shift in defensive ...

...n this timely and thoughtful paper, first circulated in draft at a workshop sponsored by the DI?s Global Futures Partnership in May 2002, Kent Center Research Scholar Jack Davis reminds us that warning is an analytic discipline and that strategic warning, in particular, is a unique analytic challenge that demands continued reassessment and improvement. Indeed, DI guidance ...

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............................................................... 68 Propellant Research...................................................................... ...ced numerous problems and was not own after 1990.  In 1989, Iraq began researching the Al ‘Abid 3- stage space launch vehicle (SLV), consisting of... ... familiarity with Scud manufacturing and was monitored closely by the UN. Research and development continued until 2001 when the program was termin... ...rom the BADR-2000 program and tried to repair the second mixer, although reports vary as to the success. According to two former Iraqi of cials, t... ... not resolved these con icts. Additionally, ISG has investigated several reports from sources of unknown credibility concerning the locations of S... ...llant grain designs. Full-scale motor testing probably began in 2002, but reports vary on the actual start date.  One senior of cial reported that...

...Excerpt: This History Staff Monograph offers a comprehensive and authoritative history of the CIA'S manned overhead reconnaissance program, which from 1954 to 1974 developed and operated two extraordinary aircraft, the U-2 and the A- 12 OXCART It describes not only the program's technological and bureaucratic aspects,...