Dossier
Analytic Tradecraft
Coverage of Analytic Tradecraft in the Nexus archive.
- Sustaining Decision Advantage: The Case for Analytic Tradecraft Reform
The article argues that the U.S. Intelligence Community must modernize its analytic tradecraft to maintain decision advantage in an era of massive data availability and AI-generated insights. It warns against letting tradecraft become a performative bureaucratic exercise while acknowledging that the intelligence community's primacy as a decision-support source is being challenged by commercial analytic services and alternative data sources.