@article{THESIS,
      recid = {11917},
      author = {Kahl, Madeline},
      title = {Missing the Forest for the Trees: US Intelligence,  Threats, and Inter-Agency Disunity},
      publisher = {University of Chicago},
      school = {M.A.},
      address = {2024-06},
      number = {THESIS},
      abstract = {Present academic treatment of the US intelligence  community (IC) tends to treat the IC as a singular unit, or  focus only on intelligence collection and analysis behavior  in the case of the Central Intelligence Agency. Yet, the IC  often confronts inter-agency contestation over analytical  conclusions. Beginning from the premise of this historical  disunity, I examine patterns of intelligence analysis. I  use 6 historical cases of inter-agency disunity to assess  trends of reliance on certain kinds of intelligence data in  the resulting analysis. I find that agencies advocating  views likely to face political pushback rely heavily on  quantifiable indicators in war-related scenarios and  qualitative, discourse-based indicators in bargaining, or  diplomatic, scenarios. However, when the agency's  analytical conclusions are consistent with conventional  wisdom at the time, individual agencies rely on a more  balanced combination of quantifiable and qualitative data  in their analysis. },
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/11917},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.11917},
}