Rowing_Ming
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Information : Any data collected that haven't been treated
Intelligence : Information that have been analysed, verified and made available in the intelligence cycle.
Most of the time, when people talk about intelligence, we mainly think about collecting informations (like spies, satellites, SIGINT, HUMINT). But the real value comes from what's behind the frontline. Analyst from different background (political sciences, military, engineering, etc) are working with every bit of information available to them to make a finished product called intelligence. Analysts have the most important jobs because they are the one who make the links between information and that will allow that information to become usable in decision making.
The CIA does have a history of some famous intelligence failure : Failure to predict the fall of the Shah in Iran, failure of understand the geo-political and the human network in Afghanistan and Irak. The former KGB was know to have a massive information collecting but never possessed an analytic capabilites even close to what the CIA had, and their worst mistake almost sent the whole world into a nuclear war in 1983, during the Operation Able Archer.
I was told from multiples sources that the higher education system in China isn't too good about teaching student to analyse and I know a lot of chinese students who a studying abroad here in Canada in social sciences or in commerce are having a very hard time writing essay and making link between idea. Does chinese students learn about analytics ? If not, can this be a hinderance of developping a truly capable intelligence organisation ?
So now, where does China stand ? I believe she must have a very large information gathering net, but how about her analytic capabilities ?
Intelligence : Information that have been analysed, verified and made available in the intelligence cycle.
Most of the time, when people talk about intelligence, we mainly think about collecting informations (like spies, satellites, SIGINT, HUMINT). But the real value comes from what's behind the frontline. Analyst from different background (political sciences, military, engineering, etc) are working with every bit of information available to them to make a finished product called intelligence. Analysts have the most important jobs because they are the one who make the links between information and that will allow that information to become usable in decision making.
The CIA does have a history of some famous intelligence failure : Failure to predict the fall of the Shah in Iran, failure of understand the geo-political and the human network in Afghanistan and Irak. The former KGB was know to have a massive information collecting but never possessed an analytic capabilites even close to what the CIA had, and their worst mistake almost sent the whole world into a nuclear war in 1983, during the Operation Able Archer.
I was told from multiples sources that the higher education system in China isn't too good about teaching student to analyse and I know a lot of chinese students who a studying abroad here in Canada in social sciences or in commerce are having a very hard time writing essay and making link between idea. Does chinese students learn about analytics ? If not, can this be a hinderance of developping a truly capable intelligence organisation ?
So now, where does China stand ? I believe she must have a very large information gathering net, but how about her analytic capabilities ?