LESSON 04 OUTLINE

• Lesson Overview
• Lesson Objectives
• Assignments
• What is Intelligence?
• The Development of US Intelligence
• The US Intelligence Community
• The Intelligence Process-A Macro Look: Who Does What for Whom?
• Collection and the Collection Disciplines
• Analysis
• Summary and Final Tasks

Lesson 04: Intelligence Organizations and Functions (part 1)

What is Intelligence?

Language has power. Those that get to determine definitions often get to determine the scope of "legitimate" discussion for a particular topic. Thus certain discourses are legitimate and privileged, certain discourses are marginalized as less important, and some discourses may be tainted as illegitimate and not worthy or allowable for discussion. The legitimacy and privilege of a discourse is critical when it comes to resource allocation. Those with privileged discourse win while those with marginalized or illigimate discourses lose to lesser or greater degree.

As you read Lowenthal's Chapter 1 that discusses "What is Intelligence?" do some critical thinking and ask yourself:

• Who is the author and what is his agenda?
   
• Why do they define intelligence as they do?
   
• What are alternative discourses that might define intelligence differently?
   
• Why is this discourse powerful as evidenced by its inclusion in a standard textbook now in its third edition?
   
• What might be your alternative definition?