"In Challenges in Intelligence Analysis, Timothy Walton offers concrete, reality-based ways to improve intelligence analysis. After a brief introduction to the main concepts of analysis, he provides more than forty historical and contemporary examples that demonstrate what has, and what has not, been effective when grappling with difficult problems. The examples cover a wide span of time, going back 3,000 years. They are also global in scope and deal with a variety of political, military, economic, and social issues.Walton emphasizes the importance of critical and creative thinking and how such thinking can be enhanced. His book provides a detailed and balanced explanation of intelligence work and will be of particular interest to students who are contemplating a career in intelligence analysis"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes maps of: Ancient Mediterranean; Europe in 1939; Pacific in World War II; Korean Peninsula; Malaya; U.S.S.R.; Range of the Soviet Missiles in the Cuban Missile Crisis; Indochina; Afghanistan; Middle East; Iran; Ethnic Groups in Iraq; Caribbean Sea; Washington, D.C. Sniper Attacks. Reprinted 2011.

Part I.Problems and Possible Solutions : -- The main challenges for intelligence analysis ; -- Attempts to deal with the challenges ; -- Part II. From the Ancient World to Modern Times : -- Moses sends spies into Canaan ; -- The Athenian campaign in Sicily ; -- Caesar's campaigns in Gaul ; -- Sun Tzu ; -- The Spanish Armada ; -- George Washington ; -- Part III. The First Half of the Twentieth Century : -- Wilson and the Paris Peace Conference ; -- Estimating the strength of the Luftwaffe in the 1930s ; -- Stalin assesses Hitler ; -- Pearl Harbor ; -- Targets for the Allied bombers ; -- The German V weapon ; -- Part IV. The Cold War : -- Atomic bomb spies ; -- The outbreak of the Korean War ; -- Counterinsurgency in Malaya ; -- Soviet strategic weapons ; -- The Cuban Missile Crisis ; -- Aspects of the Vietnam War ; -- The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan ; -- Finding spies: Ames and Hanssen ; -- Breakup of the USSR ; -- Part V. Other International Security Issues, Other Places : -- The Yom Kippur War ; -- Fall of the Shah ; 26. Nuclear weapons tests ; -- A. Q. Khan ; -- Iraqi weapons of mass destruction ; -- Violence in Iraq ; -- Part VI. Domestic Law Enforcement : -- The Lindbergh kidnapping ; -- Breaking the mafia ; -- Airline tragedies: Pan Am Flight 103 and TWA Flight 800 ; -- Aum Shinrikyo ; -- Colombian drug cartels ; -- Wen Ho Lee ; -- 9/11 ; -- Anthrax attacks ; -- DC snipers ; -- Part VII. Medicine and Business : -- SARS ; -- New Coke ; -- Japan in the US car market ; Appendix A: further recommended reading.