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)

The Development of US Intelligence

As you read Lowenthal's chapter 2 that discusses "The Development of US Intelligence" do some critical thinking and ask yourself:

• Why did the US not develop a formal intelligence establishment until relatively recently?
   
• Must a threat based foreign policy continue to be the mainstay of US foreign policy?
   
• Are there other alternatives to competitive analysis?
   
• What is the optimal relationship between producers and consumers of intelligence?
   
• How does the issue of "a heavy reliance" on technology relate to geospatial intelligence?

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is responsible within the US intelligence community for imagery intelligence (as Lowenthal would term it - it is more correctly referred to geospatial intelligence as you will learn next week). You will read about the NGA and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Strategy (NGS) next week. Familiarize yourself with the history of the NGA by reading this short fact sheet.

Follow this link to the NGA History Fact sheet.