Intelligence Analysis (Comprehensive - Levels 1, 2 and 3)

- Understand what Direction is and how it is applied

- Understand the Collection process

- Understand how Processing of information results in intelligence

- Understand the principles and methods of Dissemination

- Understand what Direction is and how it is applied

- Provide an overview of Direction and how to direct intelligence staff

- Explore the Intelligence Collection Plan

- Understand how to formulate Information Requirements

- Understand the Collection process

- Recognise how requests for information should be compiled

- Identify key types of intelligence collection disciplines

- Understand the importance of Collation

- Understand the role of Evaluation of intelligence

- Develop your Analysis skills

- Identify how intelligence is bought together under Integration

- Understand how intelligence is developed through Interpretation

- Understand the principles of dissemination

- Understand the benefits and issues of types of dissemination

- Understand the method to conducting a SWOT analysis

- Identify the internal and external factors that affect a target

- Understand the four key principles of network analysis

- Understand the seven stages of network analysis

- Understand the methods of reducing information down to extract entities

- Identify entities and associations

- Produce a network diagram for further analysis

- Understand the need for pattern analysis

- Understand the three step approach to pattern analysis

- Know how to use five pattern analysis tools

- Construct realistic hypotheses on future activity

- Understand PMESII – ASCOPE analysis

- Construct a PMESII – ASCOPE table

- Understand the need for source evaluation

- Understand the need for information assessment

- Understand the different types of intelligence collection methods

- Know how to request information from intelligence collection assets

- Understand how surveillance can be used to gather intelligence

- Understand the differences between Unwilling, Willing and Unwitting sources of HUMINT

- Understand the difference between Covert and Overt HUMINT collection

- Develop an insight into the legal framework around HUMINT collection

- Understand how HUMINT can aid in developing the intelligence picture

- Understand the importance of different communication types

- Learn how to structure various forms of questions

- Understand why we use questions

- Understanding different types of listening techniques

- Know how to structure any questioning based activity

- Identify the three different levels of open source information

- Understand how search engines work and how best to use them

- Understand how social media accounts can be used for intelligence collection

- Understand how to save intelligence for future purposes

- Understand how intelligence can be extracted from images

- Learn about the role of a Watchkeeper within an organisation

- Know how to conduct research into companies and websites

- Understand how good digital hygiene is important when conducting OSINT research

- Understand the different types of Imagery Intelligence (IMINT)

- Identify the benefits and limitations of using open source imagery

- Recognise how to apply analysis to imagery to generate useful imagery products

- Understand the definitions of surveillance

- Identify different forms of surveillance

- Know how surveillance techniques can be deployed

- Understand the role of the analyst in surveillance deployments

A short video explaining some of the concepts of Human Intelligence (HUMINT) collection.

- Revise the principles of dissemination

- Understand the four different types of verbal briefing

- Understand the model for intelligence briefing

- Understand the benefits and issues of types of dissemination

- Apply the principles for effective briefing

*Note - this lesson includes revision on the principles of dissemination. Skip to 6min 55s if you have recently completed the Dissemination lesson. 

- Revise the principles of dissemination

- Understand the three main types of written dissemination

- Understand the benefits and issues of types of dissemination

*Note - this lesson includes revision on the principles of dissemination. Skip to 6min 10s if you have recently completed the Dissemination lesson. 

- Revise the principles of dissemination

- Understand how graphical dissemination can aid intelligence dissemination

- Understand the benefits and issues of graphical dissemination

*Note - this lesson includes revision on the principles of dissemination. Skip to 6min 08s if you have recently completed the Dissemination lesson.

- Revise assessment language terminology

- Explore the concept of horizon scanning

- Understand second and third order effects

- Understand black swan theory

- Develop skills of predictive analysis

- Revise assessment language terminology

- Explore the concept of the human terrain

- Identify key tools used in human terrain analysis

- Understand human security and it’s relationship with intelligence

- Develop skills of predictive analysis

- Revise the concept of the Intelligence Cycle

- Understand the Targeting Cycle

- The relationship between Intelligence and Targeting

- Terminology

- Types

- Target development

• Explore each stage of the targeting cycle in depth:

  • Find

  • Fix

  • Finish

  • Exploit

  • Analyse

- Understand the concept of “Attack the network”

- Explore networking targeting

- Identify key nodes suitable for targeting

- The Intelligence Cycle and it’s role

- Definition of threat

- Threat types

- Definition of Threat Intelligence (TI)

- Collecting TI

- Operationalising TI