"Intelligence is an intellectual process.  Regardless of the means by which it is collected, the ultimate product is the result of smart people pondering what is known, what is unknown and trying to determine what it all means." 

Mark Lowenthal

 

Welcome to Intelligence Is The Future !

Join the Center for Homeland Defense & Security, part of the Naval Postgrad School in Monterrey. Their Research Process & Methods course, all online, is at no cost, and they combine video lectures, Word doc materials, and a series of exercises 

Heres the link to create your own free account: 

https://www.chds.us/?auth/create&pgm=Noncredit 

Current courses: 

-Research Process and Methods 
-The Global Jihadi Threat 
-Critical Infrastructure: Vulnerability Analysis and Protection 
-Technology for Homeland Security: Inspection and Detection Technologies
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Simply follow the link to request your free CD ROM Course on Analytical Investigative 
Tools, made available to you by mail within 3 to 6 weeks 

http://www.mctft.com/cdrom_training/browse_courses.shtml 

Other no-cost courses of interest to law enforcement from MCTFT include: 

Drugs in America: Lessons for Law Enforcement 
Explosives, Booby Traps and Bomb Threat Management 
Risk Management and Violence in Undercover Operations 
InFocus: A Clear Message About Drugs 

An invaluable resource where there is a need to assess credibility/reliability of human source information (CI's, cooperating private individuals, etc).  The International Association for Intelligence 

Education listserve group have introduced a discussion on the topic of human source assessments. Richards Heuer, author of the Psychology of Intelligence Analysis, provided the following 

link to the McGill Research Blog, where 25 specific questions are addressed that may help arrive at a sound assessment of competency and credibility: 

www.professormcgill.com/blog/2008/09/20/source-analysis-and-the-twenty-five-questions-of-schum-and-morris/