1.04 Graded Assignment: Global Contact

For this assignment, instead of looking at an intelligence problem, you will look at an intelligence failure.  To get started, check out the Foreign Policy article linked below. The article highlights 10 of the biggest intelligence failures in US history. You are to select one of those failures as the subject of your paper. You may choose a failure not on the list, but if you do, you must get your topic approved by me. Please note, that your topic does not have to focus on US intelligence, it can look at the failure of another country's intelligence agencies. Also note, that this is not intended to be a critique of any presidential administration past or present. Instead this is an analysis of the analytical pitfalls that led to the intelligence failure. This paper should include the following elements: Title page Introduction with strong thesis statement Background and analysis of the intelligence failure Assessment of which analytical techniques learned in this class could have prevented the failure (you may discuss more than one) Conclusion Bibliography Friedman, Uri. (2012). "The Ten Biggest American Intelligence Failures." Foreign Policy, (Jan 3) https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/01/03/the-ten-biggest-american-intelligence-failures/