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Intelligence organizations spend huge amounts of money to acquire and analyze vast quantities of national security data because of their political leaders. How well is this intelligence analyzed, how often is it acted on by policymakers, and does it have a positive or negative effect on decision making? Drawing on declassified documents, interviews with intelligence veterans and policymakers, and other sources, The Image of the Foe breaks new ground as it examines how seven countries analyzed and used intelligence to condition their knowledge of their main adversary. The cases in the booklet are the Soviet Union's analysis of america (and vice versa), East Germany's analysis of Western Germany (and vice versa), British intelligence in the first years of the Troubles in North Ireland, Israeli intelligence about the Palestinians, Pakistani intelligence on India, and US intelligence about Islamist terrorists. These rivalries provide rich circumstance studies for scholars and provide today's analysts and policymakers the chance to closely evaluate recent successes and failures in intelligence analysis and the best ways to give information support to policymakers. Using these lessons from the past, they can progress to improve analysis of current adversaries and future risks.
