International studies, Vol. XX No. 1-2, 2020.
Review article
https://doi.org/10.46672/ms.20.1-2.7
Scientific research of intelligence failures: issues and controversy
Mirko Bilandžić
orcid.org/0000-0002-0532-9767
; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Tomislav Dokman
; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Abstract
Intelligence failures have aroused the interest of the general scientific and professional public for the past eighty years and, according to certain estimates, are the most researched topic in the field of intelligence studies. The basic function of investigating intelligence failures is directed in particular towards improving intelligence activities, ie minimizing these failures as a whole. However, this area is characterized by the unavailability of primary data from the heart of the intelligence institution and direct insight into all phases of the intelligence process, which is controversial in the implementation of objective, impartial and cognitive scientific research. Despite the lack of primary data, scientists and experts in the field of intelligence studies use secondary sources that are the result of institutional investigations conducted by states after the occurrence of an intelligence failure. Therefore, this paper determines whether intelligence failures can be scientifically analysed, or whether these analyses have features of an expert analysis.
Keywords
intelligence studies; intelligence failures; intelligence services; decision-makers; science; science research
Hrčak ID:
247308
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Publication date:
8.12.2020.
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