Thursday, June 2, 2011  Part 9 -- Departures From The
Intelligence Cycle (Let's Kill The Intelligence Cycle)  Other
authors have proposed, however, radically different versions of
the intelligence process, overthrowing old notions in an attempt
to more accurately describe how intelligence is done in the real
world.    The first of these attempts, by longtime academic and
former CIA officer, Arthur Hulnick, was the Intelligence
Matrix.  Hulnick believed that intelligence was better described
in terms of a matrix (see image below).  For Hulnick there were
three main activities, parts of which, in many cases, occurred
at the same time.  These three “pillars” were collection,
production, and support and services.  Hulnick's model, while
capturing more of the functions of intelligence, does not seem
to provide much guidance on how to actually do intelligence.
Peter Pirolli and Stuart Card of the Palo Alto Research Center
also attempted to re-define the intelligence process (see image
below).  This re-definition h