The Game Every Intel Professional Should Play Is Now For Sale!

CVTV, a new version of the ancient game of Hnefatafl Hnefatafl is one of my favorite games.  Quick to play, easy to learn, created by Viking...

Leksika - A New Site On Russia, Eurasia Worth Watching!

I just received a note from one of the sharper crayons that has emerged from the Mercyhurst Intel Studies box - Spencer Vuksic.   Spencer, a...

Intelligence And Ethics: Now You Can Check The Codes!

Some would say that ethics in intelligence is an oxymoron.   Certainly, the ethical challenges faced by today's intelligence professiona...

Advanced Analytic Techniques (The Blog) Is Back!

Check out www.advat.blogspot.com! Each year, I teach a class called  Advanced Analytic Techniques  (AAT) here at Mercyhurst.  It is a semina...

Three Convergent Thinking Techniques Every Analyst Should Master

"The most important failure was one of imagination." -- 9/11 Report This sentence and the reforms that it (and others like it) co...

What Is A Critical Thinker?

Image Courtesy Wade M via Flickr Just got turned on to Joe Lau's book, An Introduction to Critical Thinking and Creativity ( H/T to Edu...

Will This New Game Genre Change Intelligence Training, Education?

Most gamers understand that games fall into genres.  For example, Scrabble, Boggle and my own game, Widget , are all examples of "word ...

Realism, Playability And Games In The Intelligence Classroom

A couple of weeks ago, I made a print-and-play version of my new game about collection management,  Spymaster , available to anyone who read...

Spymaster - Test My New Card Game About Collection Management!

Last year I was struggling with how to make the classroom discussion of collection management  (you know... the allocation of collection ass...

Reviewers Needed For The Visual Analytics Science And Technology (VAST) 2014 Challenge!

The Visual Analytics Community  and their member organizations (including the Department of Homeland Security, Pacific Northwest National La...

Visa-free Access: Who Has The Best Passport?

Having to get a visa is a hassle - just ask anyone who has gone through the process.  Likewise, being able to travel into and out of countri...

New Version Of "How To Get A Job In Intelligence" In the Works And I Could Use Some Help...

A few years ago, I published a series of posts called "How To Get A Job In Intelligence".  It was, without a doubt, one of the mos...

The Game Every Intel Professional Should Play Is Now Online And Free!

About a year ago, I wrote about one of my favorite games, the old Viking game of Hnefatafl.   I said then I thought it was a game every inte...

Thinking in Parallel (Part Three - Testing The Mercyhurst Model Against The Real World)

Part 1 -- Introduction Part 2 -- The Mercyhurst Model For the last 11 years, I have been using the model described in Part 2 to structure my...

Thinking In Parallel (Part 2 - The Mercyhurst Model)

Part 1 -- Introduction While a number of tweaks and modifications to the cycle have been proposed over the years , very few professionals or...

Thinking In Parallel: A 21st Century Vision Of The Intelligence Process

(Note:  I recently was asked to present a paper on my thoughts about re-defining the intelligence process and the implications of that redef...