Talk:Intelligence (disambiguation)
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
General term for national intelligence
Intelligence (espionage) doesn't work well, as espionage is a form of HUMINT. Here is a hierarchy that I developed at Wikipedia:
Intelligence cycle management
- Intelligence collection management
- SIGINT
- Electro-optical MASINT
- Nuclear MASINT
- Geophysical MASINT
- Radar MASINT should true imaging radar move to IMINT?
- Radiofrequency MASINT
- Materials MASINT
- HUMINT
- Clandestine HUMINT strong tie-in with counterintelligence
- Special reconnaissance also a special operations technique
- Special reconnaissance organizations
- Clandestine HUMINT operational techniques
- Clandestine HUMINT asset recruiting
- Clandestine HUMINT and Covert Action (also see Direct action (military))
- Clandestine cell system
- OSINT$
- TECHINT$ (the article exists, but has expanded, not necessarily cleanly, into national-level scientific and technical intelligence (S&TI) and economic intelligence. With the latter two, as with TECHINT, the problem is that they have aspects of both collection and analysis. I think they are more analysis, but haven't decided a good way to describe their collection requirements
- medical intelligence (if it doesn't go under intelligence organizations) As for TECHINT, there are collection and analysis aspects.
- IMINT$
- Should imaging radar move here, but not, for example, tracking radar used to determine missile performance? Anything from electro-optical MASINT? My basic rule: IMINT forms pictures, quasi-imaging MASINT gives graphs or property-by-pixel tables'
- SIGINT
- Intelligence analysis management
- Intelligence analysis
- Cognitive traps for intelligence analysis
- US intelligence community A-Space
- financial intelligence
- economic intelligence
- medical intelligence
- Intelligence analysis
- Intelligence dissemination management
- Intelligence cycle security
- Counterintelligence
- Counterintelligence failures*
- Counter-intelligence and counterterror organizations
- Counterintelligence
Currently, the only subset of Intelligence cycle management is Intelligence collection management. Shouldn't these be combined into one heading? Or is there more to come? Forget that last comment, I missread the hierarchy Chris Day 11:10, 1 May 2008 (CDT)