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Assignment:
How do you collect diverse sources, evaluate these sources, and account for challenges of mis and disinformation for your annotated bibliography? Your discussion should be based on the course materials below.
For example, let's say the research topic is:
- To what extent do Russia's military aggression in Ukraine, collectively undermine U.S. national security, and what specific measures should the U.S. adopt to mitigate these multifaceted threats?
- Provide some examples. What types of sources did you find for your assessment and how do you plan on assessing them? Would you use the ideas from Hendrix and Major on search strategies and ideas from McGlynn on the process of evaluation?
Readings:
Patrick Hendrix and James Major. Communicating with Intelligence. Writing and Briefing for National Security. 3rd edition. Rowman & Littlefield, 2022.
Chapter "Research Methods." 71-93.
Patrick McGlynn. Taking Intelligence Analysis to the Next Level: Advanced Intelligence Analysis Methodologies Using Real-World Business,
Crime, Military, and Terrorism Examples. CRC Press, 2023.
Chapter "Open-Source Intelligence." 225-250.
Hank Prunckun. Scientific Methods of Inquiry for Intelligence Analysis. 2nd ed. Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.
Chapter "Open Sources of Information." 109-130.
Podcast. "Applying Analytic Tradecraft to OSINT." 2023.
Suggested Additional Reading:
Hank Prunckun. Scientific Methods of Inquiry for Intelligence Analysis. 2nd ed. Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.
Chapter "Unobtrusive Data Collection." 103-108.
Chapter "Clandestine and Covert Sources of Information." 131-160.