Comments on: Intelligence Analysis as decision-making: A case study of the 2002 Bali Bombings

By: Charles

Charles — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:16:12 +0000

Adam,

Thank you for coming and the comments. I thought that the failure of knowledge was a point well-made and provides a broader perspective with which to consider these types of attacks. I hope you are planning to be involved in our June videoconference.

Charles

By: roy giles

roy giles — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:34:37 +0000

I agree the point you make, and am so grateful that you didn’t advise “outside the box” thinking….. If you would like to continue examining the Bali report, making use of Charles Vandepeer’s paper as a reference, perhaps in the next months you might build up sufficient debate for us to set up an item (and a speaker?) for the June videoconf…

By: Adam Svendsen

Adam Svendsen — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:27:27 +0000

I very much enjoyed listening to this talk. I felt it nicely reminded us that we have to continue to think ‘horizontally’ (i.e. functionally/thematically) as well as ‘vertically’ (i.e. regionally/geographically) in intelligence analysis endeavours. Also underlines, as the UK ISC Report into the Bali Bombings findings suggested that this was an episode of ‘knowledge’ failure rather than so much a ‘failure’ of ‘intelligence’ per se…