1. Security, Strategic Assessment and Intelligence
Covers: Essential issues in the relationship between intelligence and security policy and strategy; Threat assessment, vulnerability assessment and threat/vulnerability matrices; the wider application of these concepts outside government.
2. Essential Ideas of Intelligence
Covers: what is intelligence? The ‘intelligence cycle’; overt, covert and confidential collection methods; analysis and assessment; dissemination and exploitation; intelligence in effective security policy and strategy.
3. Issues and Methods of Analysis
Covers: key concepts in analytical tradecraft; ‘lynchpin’/driver theory; main analytical pathologies; introduction to structured analytical methods including: hypothesis matrices; investigation matrices; recent developments in analytical software.
4. Dissemination and Decision
Covers: drafting, briefing and the producer-consumer relationship; weighting intelligence and other forms of information and alternative considerations; producer effective communication and ensuring consumer comprehension.
5. Coordination, Communication and Effectiveness
Covers: inter-office, interagency and interdepartmental cooperation and coordination in intelligence production and exploitation; alternative models of control and coordination; critical criteria and conditions for coordination and effectiveness.
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