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Helping 'make-sense of the "big picture"' & advancing that goal through 'systems' to 'factors' & 'indicators'-based 'Intelligence Engineering' (IE) lenses, toolboxes & toolsets - via:

1. Conducting & delivering bespoke Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)-based gathering/collection to analysis & assessment/estimation work - from products to training & education outputs;
2. Generating investigative & research-originating intelligence ('RESINT') for supporting to bolstering operations-related & contemporary under-resourced & under-exploited reflective to reflexive Strategic Intelligence (STRATINT) efforts;
3. Providing STARC - specific, timely, accurate, relevant & clear - input useful for enhanced direction-guidance & for sense- to decision-making purposes;
4. Contributing to better understanding current & future environments ('situational awareness' & 'context appreciation' to '[strategic] early warning', 'anticipation' & 'foresight'), in & across several multi-domain contexts (including cyber/digital), & at multiple tempos over many different geographies/locations & timelines to timeframes (capturing 'multiplexity').
5. Offering advanced insight relating to the full-spectrum-range of themes-issues-problems-risks-hazards-&-threats confronted and experienced, both operationally up & across to in policy & strategy terms, as well as organisationally, administratively, technologically, & beyond;
6. Design, development & delivery of robustly-tested, research & evidence-based intelligence 'solutions' ('solution-fashioning' to 'problem-solving' & 'trouble-shooting') - powered by bespoke tailored & targeted, semi-automated Internet-based keyword searches, keeping humans firmly 'in-the-loop'.

Research topics: Pursued for over 20 years and firmly grounded in an in-depth understanding to command of both contemporary strategic and military theory to their detailed case-study-based lessons from history, which are in turn embedded in a systems-based analytical & assessment framework, Adam Svendsen's scholarship can be summarised as covering & spanning 10 inter-connecting, main research themes & projects (freely listed as follows): 1. 'Intelligence Engineering (IE) for multi-application': Emergent since 2015, 'Intelligence Engineering' (IE) - also known as 'the Bridgehead Methodology' - at its least represents an attempt towards both 'thinking about' and 'doing' (the conduct of) intelligence work differently, both now and into the future, in and across a variety of several different contexts. IE equally includes consideration of all aspects of risk analysis/assessment to risk and uncertainty management, extending to resilience, realisable over varying geographies and multiple, geo-strategic (multi-)domains of operation (sea, air, land, space to cyber and digital). All dimensions of intelligence are considered, from tactical (TACINT), operational (OPINT) to strategic intelligence (STRATINT). Multi-scaler and useful for many purposes ('multi-application' value), including war-gaming & Red-/Purple-/A+B-Teaming, & so forth. Particular advancement of OSINT+ ('OSINT-plus') & RESINT (research-originating intelligence) to UNCERTINT (uncertainty intelligence). Learn more here --->>> 2. 'Unpacking "Intelligence Liaison"' (inc. the 'Globalisation of Intelligence'): Complete a thorough, cross-contextual analysis of the phenomenon of 'intelligence liaison' (aka. intelligence cooperation; intelligence sharing; intelligence exchange; intelligence coordination; intelligence integration, intelligence relations, intelligence circulation, etc.), including developing and exploring theoretical aspects and practical dimensions. Conducted with the added view towards providing insight into the comprehensive optimisation of intelligence liaison work - for example, accomplished through the increased adoption & consistent upholding over time of standards & best practices, as well as system(s) approaches, that help to faciliate essential conditions, such as 'trust', in liaison interactions. For my IAFIE Conference 2023 presentation, see via LinkedIn --->>> See also, for links to the 'Globalisation of Intelligence', via this 2012 book --->>> 3. 'Reforming & optimising Intelligence to Strategic Futures: Insights into intelligence and multi-functional to special operation (e.g. counter-terrorism - CT, counter-insurgency - COIN, counter-proliferation - CP, counter-organised crime to 'high-end warfare') optimisation, extending to the closely related area of Strategic Futures (Strategic Foresight Analysis - SFA) / Global Trends / Futures Studies Scenarios & Strategic Options work. Strong focus on 'professionalisation' process(es). Try these: Book on the Professionalization of Intelligence Cooperation + also Intelligence & Strategic Futures in a 'hybrid defence' context + ARC White Papers, inc. Gen-AI use --->>> 4. 'Intelligence + International Relations': Explore practical and theoretical connections between intelligence + International Relations (both in terms of their study and doing or conduct). Check out - this 2009 article --->>> 5. 'Anglo-American (UK-US) intelligence & defence co-operation': Various enduring insights into the Anglo-American 'Special Relationship', especially with a main focus on the areas of defence and intelligence. See, for example, this 2010 book --->>> + articles via this link --->>> 6. 'European/EU intelligence cooperation': Several insights into how European and EU (European Union) intelligence cooperation can be evaluated & sustained. As a case study, includes links to the 'regionalisation of intelligence' concept and process. See, for instance, via this book chapter --->>> + see also in a BREXIT context --->>> 7. 'Collective Intelligence' (aka. COLINT): Providing national to regional and global security-oriented insights into the developing phenomenon of 'Collective Intelligence' or 'COLINT' (also represented as 'CI' or 'C.I.' by the business sector). See via this Encyclopaedia entry --->>> 8. ‘“Intelligence Power in Peace and War” as manifested in a “Multiplex World”’: Focused and based on a number of different, bespoke-developed case studies, the purpose of this long-term, ongoing research project is to study: (i) the theme of 'Intelligence Power in Peace and War' (as attributable to Michael Herman, and as introduced and developed in his 1996 book of that title); together with (ii) examining that above theme embedded in the contemporary context of a 'Multiplex World' (for example, drawing on the concept as developed by US International Relations Professor Amitav Acharya in several of his recent articles from around 2014 onwards). Several different outputs exist & are anticipated. Adopts multiple approaches, methodologies, theoretical perspectives, etc. Includes consideration of both civilian & conventional military to special operations forces - SOF/SF dimensions across 'deal', 'capture', & - if absolutely & proportionately necessary - more kinetic 'kill' continuums. Visit this topic, via this article and its associated links --->>> 9. 'Project on Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance, CYBINT (+ beyond...)': Ongoing multi-domain ('multi-everything!' or 'multiplexic' - 'multiple complexities') project with a main focus on Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, extending to ISTAR with 'target acquisition' tasks, to C4ISR - adding Command, Control, Computers, Communications (C4)- and to C5ISR, with the addition of Cyber, including Cyber Intelligence (CYBINT) considerations. Examination of various sensors & platforms (e.g. Unmanned/uncrewed aerial vehicles - UAVs/'drones', spy-planes, aerostats/'blimps', satellites, etc.) to presenting different case studies involving varying degrees of ISR/ISTAR/C4ISR/C5ISR/CYBINT use. Alongside 'emerging tech(nology)' - automated to (human) 'mandraulic'/'manual' - both nuclear and conventional areas & concerns are covered, including capacity, capability, as well as 'dual-use', procurement & export to arms control considerations. Check out these publications! A Routledge Handbook chapter + RSIS Policy Report --->>> See also: Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - Defining & Doing Cyber Intelligence - CYBINT --->>> 10. 'Intelligence & Criminology focus' & the 'Intelligence+Law Nexus': Project examines, inter alia, intelligence related to transnational serious & organised crime, investigating financial crimes & criminal/crime trends - includes Criminal/Crime Intelligence, Police Intelligence work, Financial Intelligence (FININT) & the work of Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs), all augmented by both human factors and technological concerns & considerations. Closely overlapping with 'Smart Power' to 'soft-' & 'hard power', also examines the concept of 'Smart Law', the balancing of 'hard' & 'soft law' dimensions, particularly in the context of (big) data to intelligence & surveillance enterprises, including artificial intelligence (AI), as well as ethics & bias. Intelligence 'governance' & 'management' to accountability & oversight concerns & considerations, inc. auditing, are equally covered. See this 'Tech & Law' commentary piece on '"Smart Law" for Intelligence!' ---->>> Now visit the publications listed below for further insight... --->>>

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(Prof./Dr.) Adam D.M. Svendsen, PhD (Warwick, UK) is an international intelligence & defence strategist, educator, researcher, analyst, adviser & consultant ('scholar-practitioner') - twitter: @intstrategist / @BridgeheadInst1 / LinkedIn >>>

Multi-sector experienced to a senior level over several years, among many roles he co-runs the Bridgehead Institute (Research & Consulting - Insight, Training & Education) (2016+), is an Affiliated Scientist & Visiting Guest at the Collective Intelligence Group at the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU) - previously the Collective Intelligence Unit (CIU), Copenhagen Business School (2019+) - and an Associate Consultant at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies (CIFS), Denmark (2012+).

He works as a Strategic Intelligence & Risk Consultant (2005+), including having undergone senior practitioner-training after his doctorate at European defence & emergency planning colleges (2009+), lectured at senior/advanced level at the Royal Danish Defence College (FAK), given expert guest lectures, classes & bespoke-tailored research seminars at the Royal Netherlands Defence Academy, Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Aarhus University, amongst other institutions & venues, and taught at the University of Nottingham (2006-7).

He also lectures and advises from design to implementation as an 'academic director' on Global Security & Intelligence for the US Fulbright recognised Global & International Studies Masters Program courses at the University of Salamanca, Spain: https://globalandinternationalstudies.com/, including thesis supervision and examination.

Together with work cited in testimony to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the UK Parliament (amongst others - e.g. including contribution to the UK Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) Note on ‘Automation in Military Operations’ (October 2022)) and participating in the RUSI Strategic Hub on Organised Crime Research, he has multi-sector award-winning international media and communication experience, including authoring several peer-reviewed publications, such as numerous articles, chapters, and the four books:

(1) Intelligence Cooperation and the War on Terror: Anglo-American Security Relations after 9/11 (London: Routledge/Studies in Intelligence Series, 2010);

(2) Understanding the Globalization of Intelligence (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012);

(3) The Professionalization of Intelligence Cooperation: Fashioning Method out of Mayhem, (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012); and

(4) Intelligence Engineering: Operating Beyond the Conventional (New York: Rowman & Littlefield/Security and Professional Intelligence Education Series - SPIES, 2017).

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Adam D.M. Svendsen has an established record of research and analysis to senior researcher/professor-level, spanning both the government/non-profit ('public') and business/commercial/financial ('private') sectors, with particular operational-to-strategy/policy-orientated focus on security, defence & intelligence.

While primarily a 'generalist' in global security, he equally specialises in the 'optimisation' and 'future-proofing' of intelligence, as well as all of its associated processes, including both 'real' & 'artificial intelligence' (AI) concerns.

A main driver in his highly-task-oriented investigative approach is: 'only connect'.

With a constantly-developing focus on informatics, systems & design-engineering, he also covers the areas of civil contingencies, emergency planning & disaster/crisis management (risk/resilience), including 'intelligence business/organisation/administration', 'intelligence enterprise', 'intelligence architecture', and 'Strategic Futures' or 'Strategic Foresight' (Strategic Foresight Analysis - SFA) to 'Strategic Notice' & 'Global Trends/Scenarios' work.

Alongside, he is research coordinator for the ‘The Intelligence-domain System-of-Systems Dynamics Reference Content (SoSD)’ research project, see for details via: the Global University Alliance website >>>

He also participates in the collaborative ‘Strategic Hub on Organised Crime Research’, hosted by the UK think-tank, the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI) in Whitehall, London >>> and in functional/thematic-focused United Nations (UN) networks.

A regular peer-reviewer for several journals, he is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of European and American Intelligence Studies (JEAIS) ->>>; and he has contributed to professional and industry-leading publications, such as Jane's Intelligence Review (JIR), amongst others.

Occasionally, he tweets at: @intstrategist & @BridgeheadInst1

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Scanning | Monitoring | Surveying | Mapping | Analysing | Evaluating | Assessing | Examining | Exploring | Investigating | Reviewing

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Summarised as ranging across M4IS2 (Multi-agency, Multi-national, Multi-disciplinary, Multi-domain Information Sharing and Sense-making) areas, including with a fusion and sensor-integration focus and examining the full-spectrum of combined + joint-service (Army, Air Force, Navy), civilian & military (both public & private sector), 'multi-functional operations' (MFOs) to 'Special Operations' (direct/covert action) conducted in 'globalised strategic risk' (GSR) and 'complex co-existence plurality' (CCP) environments (war to peace), where 'multiplexic' conditions and situations of 'multiplexity' prevail...

Adam Svendsen's work clusters around the concerns and delivery of: 'public safety, security and supply' ('PS3').

With a Purple/Red Teaming & A+B Teaming/War-Gaming-related focus on advanced analysis (helping answer the ‘what is it?’ questions) and assessment/estimate work (dealing with the 'so what?', 'why?', & ‘what does it mean?’ queries), Adam Svendsen's work ranges far.

Progressed for sustainable risk management - and beyond, such as for resilience & issue-problem-hazard-risk-to-threat - purposes across a multitude of differently-ranging global security affairs (scaled both geographically/regionally [by area] & functionally/thematically [by entity], including the nexus between time/temporal & space/spatial factors), his research work includes investigating & advocating the adoption of:

1. an interconnected and layered ‘multi-level approach’ (both high-to-low level and macro-to-micro-ranging in nature);
2. a ‘systems approach' (involving eight systemic variables/dimensions); and
3. a ‘System-of-Systems Dynamics (SoSD) or Federation-of-Systems approach’.

That last above SoSD approach, in turn, consists of harnessing and exploiting both 'breaking-down' system-of-systems analysis (SoSA) and more proactive, 'synthesising' to 'building', system-of-systems engineering (SoSE) constructs, using PMESII, PESTLE, STEEP(L), DIME, HSCB (etc.) factors & indicators.

The SoSD factors & indicators are all considered to then being implemented across the five physical-to-virtual domains of sea, air, land, space and cyber(space).

That work includes examination of information & digital dimensions, as well as closely evaluating associated aspects, such as 'power' and 'legal' considerations (whether 'hard', 'soft', and/or 'smart') that are found both within and span those above domains.

The systems work also closely overlaps with tried-and-tested developing bodies of design & architecture-related 'Systems Oriented Design (SOD)' approaches - see, e.g., an introduction to SOD --->>> ; as well as considering other multi-sector/domain-impacting 'System Dynamics' approaches & methodologies.

Both technical (e.g. automated) and non-technical (e.g. human) areas & factors are covered, including such as how they interface, and where & how feedback features, influences and impacts (e.g. in terms of relationships, implications, ramifications, consequences, etc.), and so forth.

For instance, this informatics-related work includes considering for 'added value' (5th 'V') purposes, the following ‘4Vs’ when dealing with distributed 'Big Data', developments & events, and their associated patterns, such as the ‘quantitative considerations’ of:

• ‘Volume’ (e.g. ‘Scale/size [of data/developments and events]’); and
• ‘Velocity’ (e.g. ‘Analysis of streaming/flows of [data/developments and events]’).

As well as evaluating the ‘qualitative factors’ of:

• ‘Variety’ (e.g. ‘Differentiated forms [of data/developments and events]’); and
• ‘Veracity' (e.g. ‘Uncertainty [of and relating to data/developments and events]’).

For more information on this work, see the publications below >>>

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Adam Svendsen holds high-grade degrees in Modern History with Politics [BA (Hons), First Class, 2002] and International Relations [MA, Distinction, 2004] from the UK universities of East Anglia (UEA, Norwich) and Warwick, including a PhD thesis with case studies on counter-terrorism and WMD counter-proliferation, titled: ‘On “a continuum with expansion”: UK-US intelligence relations & wider reflections on international intelligence liaison’ (Coventry, UK: University of Warwick, July 2008; externally examined by the Department of War Studies, King's College London, September 2008, with 'no corrections required'.) >>>

He has studied and taught at the University of Nottingham (affiliated with the Centre for the Study of European Governance - CSEG, 2005-07), as well as having been a Visiting Scholar (2007) at the Center for Peace and Security Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS), Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA (now the Center for Security Studies - CSS), where he remains an Adjunct Professor (2018+).

He has also held a post-doctoral research fellowship based in the Centre for Military Studies in the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark (2011-13). His research work has been pursued across Scandinavia and also in Canada since 2006.

More recently from 2020 onwards, as an advisor and educator, he has joined the Graduate School at the University of Salamanca, Spain, to tailor design, develop and deliver a number of modules, such as those titled: (i) 'Countering terrorism from 9/11 (11 September 2001) to Islamic State/Daesh'; (ii) 'Introducing Intelligence & Multi-INT approaches/Doing Contemporary Intelligence'; and, from 2021, adding: (iii) '21st Century Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Non- & Counter-proliferation' & (iv) 'Contemporary Intelligence Insights', for its US Fulbright-recognised Global & International Studies Masters Program course offerings - see more via: https://globalandinternationalstudies.com/

He has also been appointed as 'academic director' for the set up from concept and for the delivery of an international Masters in 'Global Security & Intelligence', with the added value of a strong Intelligence Studies focus, as well as for the supervision of related dissertations.

A keen photographer and interested in digital video, Adam Svendsen also has over 20 years' worth of professional communications (including Strategic Communication(s) & influence to information operations & psychological operations - PSYOPs), online and print publishing, editorial, UK and international (DK and US) journalism, and award-winning new media managerial, advisory and consultancy experience.

Maintaining his design interests, he has worked as an agency-based Design Consultant and as a Web Editor/Manager/Designer, running all the online operations of a UK publishing house - including corporate, publications, advertising, marketing/public relations (PR), customer service, googleAdwords campaigns & e-commerce areas (across managerial, editorial & production depts.).

He is a member of IISS, the International Studies Association (ISA), and of the (UK) Air & Space Power Association - ASPA, amongst others - regularly presenting at association conferences.

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Over the years, Adam Svendsen has helped to advise international media (UK, US and DK), contributed to several workshops, a Track II UK-US Strategic Dialogue (2010), and is a regular contributor to many academic and professional conferences, including those of the International Society of Military Sciences (ISMS), UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) and UK Defence Academy-run Symposiums, and the UK Operational Research Society-related International Symposium on Military Operational Research (ISMOR).

Insights into his work on intelligence liaison and ISR/ISTAR platforms during 2016-17 can be found in his slides for: 'International Intelligence Liaison: An Agent for Change in World Politics', presented during an Intelligence Studies Section (ISS) panel, and his slides for: 'Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR): A federation/system of systems-based agent of and for change?', presented as part of an International Security Studies Section (ISSS) panel, both at the International Studies Association (ISA) 58th Annual Convention 2017, held in Baltimore, USA (February 2017).

• See also his 'intelligence liaison' and 'C4ISR/C5ISR/ISR/ISTAR' work as 'written-up' & published in several of the publications, listed below (scroll down).

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Adam Svendsen's work has been widely cited, including in 'expert testimony' to the UK Parliament's House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee (amongst others), such as in testimony given to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Drones and including contributing to the discussions of the APPG for Future Generations.

His work is also listed on several university, government ministry/agency and police & defence academy and emergency planning/crisis management colleges' courses delivered across the world for training, education and advisory/guidance.

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His peer-reviewed research publications regularly make 'the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric', including making the 'top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric' (2015) - see as represented by the badges, below >>>

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• Book 1: Intelligence Cooperation and the War on Terror
• Book 2: Understanding the Globalization of Intelligence
• Book 3: The Professionalization of Intelligence Cooperation
• Book 4: Intelligence Engineering

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Intelligence Cooperation and the War on Terror: Anglo-American Security Relations after 9/11 (London: Routledge/Studies in Intelligence Series, 2010) - published at the end of 2009 (paperback April 2012) - >>>

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• Post-publication Reviews - e.g.:
  • ‘Svendsen provides a different way of thinking about the [UK-US intelligence] relationship…’ - from ‘Intelligence Officer’s Bookshelf’, in CIA Studies in Intelligence (March 2011);
  • ‘Svendsen offers some particularly acute insights.’ - in the journal Intelligence and National Security (December 2013).

• Click here for a GoogleBooks preview --->>>

• Rated: 5/5* on Goodreads.com --->>

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Understanding the Globalization of Intelligence (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) --->>>

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• Post-publication Reviews - e.g.:
  • ‘Svendsen has presented readers with a provocative and challenging work that takes time to digest. There is much to be gained from taking that time.’ - in Journal of Contingencies & Crisis Management (May 2013);
  • ‘Svendsen certainly has done his homework.’ - in Journal of Intelligence History (January 2014).

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• Rated: 4/5* on Goodreads.com --->>

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The Professionalization of Intelligence Cooperation: Fashioning Method out of Mayhem (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) --->>>

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  • ‘The Professionalization of Intelligence Cooperation is the product of intense research and deserves serious attention.’ - from ‘Intelligence Officer’s Bookshelf’, CIA Studies in Intelligence (December 2013).

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• Intelligence Engineering: Operating Beyond the Conventional (New York: Rowman & Littlefield/Security and Professional Intelligence Education Series - SPIES, 2017) >>>

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  Reviews, e.g.:

  ‘Adam Svendsen provides a new intellectual framework for generating analysis that meets the standard of being comprehensively exhaustive and mutually exclusive. As a practitioner and facilitator of Strategic Foresight Analysis, I believe the various systems of systems approaches described in the book are particularly valuable in helping students be more rigorous in identifying critical forces, factors, and events likely to shape future events.’ - Randolph H. Pherson, former National Intelligence Officer for Latin America, CEO of Globalytica, LLC, and co-author of Structured Analytic Techniques for Intelligence Analysis.

  ‘All security and intelligence scholars will find much to stimulate their thinking in this book. Its depth and scope, variety of intelligence systems explored and the advanced nature of the argument provokes considerable insight into the role of data and information in human systems. As he has done before, Svendsen once again helps us think more sophisticatedly about how modern and emergent intelligence is done. Intelligence Engineering is not only a discussion of how states seek to learn about other states or actors, but is instead a microcosm of the networked systems that we all live in today.’ - David J. Galbreath, Centre for War and Technology, University of Bath, UK.

  '[Svendsen] provide[s] a substantial framework for enhancing the analyst’s view and understanding of the world. Nurtured carefully, this can be turned into a competitive advantage against any given target.... Adam D. M. Svendsen offers an original and interesting idea in this book. Moreover, he develops a framework for how this idea can bolster intelligence in the 21 century. His methodology and list of references reveals that coming up with this innovative framework has been no walk in the park and has taken years of expert research.' — Global Readers' Club (2017).

  Featured in the 'Recent Titles of Interest' section of the Canadian Military Intelligence Association / L'Association Canadienne du Renseignement Militaire newsletter (Spring 2017).

  Described as 'most challenging' and 'thought provoking' by the 'Intelligence Officer's Bookshelf', CIA Studies in Intelligence (December 2017).

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  Rated: 3/5* on Amazon.com -->>

  See also: the Presentation delivered at the ISMS Conference 2017 - >>> + insight-generation courses & workshop offerings -->>>

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Beyond his four books, Adam Svendsen has had several peer-reviewed articles published in leading international relations, strategic studies, and defence & security-focussed journals, see as listed below >>>

He has also contributed invited book chapters for various UK and international edited volumes, including for the Austrian Ministry of Defence and Sport - again, see as listed below for details >>>

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#1A. Svendsen, ‘The globalization of intelligence since 9/11: frameworks and operational parameters’, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 21, 1 (March 2008), pp.129-144 (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09557570701828642). DOWNLOAD a free limited availability e-print - >>> Check out access options (& related articles) via GoogleScholar --->>>

#2A.D.M. Svendsen, ‘The globalization of intelligence since 9/11: The optimization of intelligence liaison arrangements’, International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, 21, 4 (December 2008), pp.661-678 (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08850600802254871). DOWNLOAD a free limited availability e-print - >>> Check out access options (& related articles) via GoogleScholar --->>>

#3A.D.M. Svendsen, ‘Painting rather than photography: Exploring spy fiction as a legitimate source concerning UK-US intelligence co-operation’, Journal of Transatlantic Studies, 7, 1 (March 2009), pp.1-22 (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14794010802658799).

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#4A.D.M. Svendsen, ‘Connecting intelligence and theory: Intelligence Liaison and International Relations’, Intelligence and National Security, 24, 5 (October 2009), pp.700-729 (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02684520903209456). DOWNLOAD a free limited availability e-print - >>> Check out access options (& related articles) via GoogleScholar --->>>

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#5A.D.M. Svendsen, ‘Strategy and disproportionality in contemporary conflicts’, Journal of Strategic Studies, 33, 3 (June 2010), pp.367-399 (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01402390903189576). DOWNLOAD a free limited availability e-print - >>> Check out access options (& related articles) via GoogleScholar --->>>

#6A.D.M. Svendsen, ‘Re-fashioning risk: Comparing UK, US and Canadian security and intelligence efforts against terrorism’, Defence Studies, 10, 3 (September 2010), pp.307-335 (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14702436.2010.503677). DOWNLOAD a free limited availability e-print - >>> Check out access options (& related articles) via GoogleScholar --->>>

#7A.D.M. Svendsen, ‘Exemplary “friends and allies”? Unpacking UK-US relations in the early Twenty-First Century’, Journal of Transatlantic Studies, 9, 4 (December 2011), pp.342-361 (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14794012.2011.622934). DOWNLOAD a free limited availability e-print - >>>

#8A.D.M. Svendsen, ‘Special Issue on “The CIA and US Foreign Relations Since 1947: Reforms, Reflections and Reappraisals,” Intelligence and National Security 2-3 (April-June 2011) - Section I: Challenges and Reform’, H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable Reviews, III, 6 (December 2011), pp.26-43 - (Roundtable link --->>> | Direct contribution link --->>>).

#9A.D.M. Svendsen, ‘On “a continuum with expansion”? Intelligence co-operation in Europe in the early Twenty-first Century’, Journal of Contemporary European Research – JCER, 7, 4 (December 2011), (http://www.jcer.net/index.php/jcer/article/view/318). Full-text download link: < http://jcer.net/index.php/jcer/article/download/318/308 > (accessed: August 2018).

#10 A.D.M. Svendsen, ‘NATO, Libya operations and intelligence co-operation – a step forward?’, Baltic Security & Defence Review, 13, 2 (December 2011), pp.51-68 (https://www.baltdefcol.org/files/files/BSDR/BSDR_13_2.pdf).

#11A.D.M. Svendsen, ‘The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Change: Addressing US domestic counter-terrorism intelligence’, Intelligence and National Security, 27, 3 (June 2012), pp.371-397 (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02684527.2012.668080). DOWNLOAD a free limited availability e-print - >>>

***Free access to this article is available having been selected as part of the Journal of Intelligence and National Security's online 'Special Collection: Intelligence and Terrorism: Revisiting the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks and Their Impact 20 Years Later' (18 August 2021) - via: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/fint20/collections/Revisitingthe9-11TerroristAttacks20yearson (accessed: August 2021).***

Check out access options (& related articles) via GoogleScholar --->>>

#12A.D.M. Svendsen, ‘“Flectas Non Frangas”: Revisiting early Twenty-First Century UK-US defence relations (2000-05) after five years’, Defense & Security Analysis, 28, 3 (September 2012), pp.234-246 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14751798.2012.708595). DOWNLOAD a free limited availability e-print - >>> Check out access options (& related articles) via GoogleScholar --->>>

#13A.D.M. Svendsen, ‘Introducing RESINT: A Missing and Undervalued “INT” in All-Source Intelligence Efforts’, International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, 26, 4 (September 2013), pp.777-794 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08850607.2013.807196). DOWNLOAD a free limited availability e-print - >>> Check out access options (& related articles) via GoogleScholar --->>>

#14A.D.M. Svendsen, ‘Sharpening SOF tools, their strategic use and direction: Optimising the command of special operations amid wider contemporary defence transformation and military cuts’, Defence Studies, 14, 3 (2014), pp.284-309 <http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14702436.2014.890341>. DOWNLOAD a free limited availability e-print - >>> Check out access options (& related articles) via GoogleScholar --->>>

#15A.D.M. Svendsen, ‘Advancing “Defence-in-depth”: Intelligence and Systems Dynamics’, Defense & Security Analysis, 31, 1 (2015), pp.58-73 - available via: <www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14751798.2014.995337>. This article was ranked ‘Number 3’ (June 2015) in: explore.tandfonline.com/page/taylor-francis-altmetric-top-20/taylor-francis-altmetric-1-10 and 'Number 1' for Routledge Strategic Studies (March 2015). DOWNLOAD a free limited availability e-print - >>> Check out access options (& related articles) via GoogleScholar --->>>

#16A.D.M. Svendsen, ‘Contemporary intelligence innovation in practice: Enhancing “macro” to “micro” systems thinking via “System of Systems” dynamics’, Defence Studies, 15, 2 (2015), pp.105-123 - available via: <www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14702436.2015.1033850>. DOWNLOAD a free limited availability e-print - >>> Check out access options (& related articles) via GoogleScholar --->>>

#17A.D.M. Svendsen, ‘Intelligence Liaison’, Intelligencer - Journal of the US Association of Former Intelligence Officers - AFIO (May 2015) - available via: <www.afio.com/publications/SVENDSEN%20Intel%20Liaison%2028May2015l.pdf>. See also the chapter version as published in AFIO's Guide to the Study of Intelligence (2016) via --->>>

#18A.D.M. Svendsen, 'Developing international intelligence liaison against Islamic State: Approaching “one for all and all for one”?’, International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, 29, 2 (2016), pp.260-277 - available via: <www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08850607.2016.1121042>. DOWNLOAD a free limited availability e-print - >>> Check out access options (& related articles) via GoogleScholar --->>>

#19A.D.M. Svendsen, ‘International Intelligence Liaison: A Primer’, Romanian Intelligence Studies Review, 15 (2016), pp.65-78 (Romania) - available via: <https://issuu.com/animv/docs/rrsi_15_en/66>.

#20A.D.M. Svendsen,‘Examining the Aviation Security & Safety Nexus’, Revista Academiei de Stiinte ale Securitatii Nationale [Romania], nr. 1 (2016), pp.12-24 - volume available via: <http://www.assn.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Publicatia_RASSN_nr_1_2016.pdf> and article available via: <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3429648> (accessed: August 2019).

#21A.D.M. Svendsen, ‘Strategic Futures and Intelligence: The Head and Heart of “Hybrid Defence” Providing Tangible Meaning and Ways Forward’, Small Wars Journal - SWJ (1 June 2017) - available via: <http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/strategic-futures-and-intelligence-the-head-and-heart-of-%E2%80%98hybrid-defence%E2%80%99-providing-tangibl>. As also featured by the Real Clear Defense blog - >>>; and in NATO Library LibGuides on 'Hybrid Warfare' (June 2017).

#22A.D.M. Svendsen, ’Brexit: an agent of “disruptive change” for UK and European intelligence?’, Journal of Intelligence History, 16, 2 (June 2017), pp.108-111 - available via: <http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/16161262.2017.1334355>. DOWNLOAD a free limited availability e-print - >>> Check out access options (& related articles) via GoogleScholar --->>>

#23A.D.M. Svendsen, ‘“Work-in-progress”? Revisiting the UK Serious and Organised Crime Strategy of 2013 and surveying UK efforts against transnational organised crime’, RUSI Strategic Hub for Organised Crime Research (SHOC) - The Informer blog (8 November 2017) - available via: <https://shoc.rusi.org/blog/work-in-progress-revisiting-the-2013-uk-serious-and-organised-crime-strategy-and-surveying-uk-efforts-against-transnational-organised-crime/> (accessed: July 2021).

#24A.D.M. Svendsen, ‘Introducing Intelligence Engineering: Operating Beyond the Conventional’, Revista Român? de Studii de Intelligence / Romanian Intelligence Studies Review, 17-18 (2017), pp.205-214 - available via: <https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=704419> and an online electronic copy via: <https://issuu.com/animv/docs/rrsi_17_18_en_ro_reduced/206> (accessed: August 2019). For further insights into Adam's 'Intelligence Engineering' project, see here --->>>

#25Comments relating to the future and 'professionalisation' of intelligence analysis published as part of E.-D. Baches and E.R. Torres (Guest Editors), 'Through the Cloak and Dagger Crystal Ball: Emerging Changes that will Drive Intelligence Analysis in the Next Decade’, an article in the Special Issue: ‘Cross-Domain Approaches to Intelligence Analysis', Journal of Mediterranean and Balkan Intelligence: An International Journal, 10, 2 (December 2017), p.178 - further details: <http://www.rieas.gr/images/jmbi/jmbino10.pdf> (accessed: January 2018).

#26Adam D.M. Svendsen, 'Advancing Intelligence Engineering: Operating Beyond the Conventional', Kungl Krigsvetenskapsakademiens: Handlingar och Tidskrift (The Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences: Proceedings and Journal), Nr.2 (April/June 2018), pp.178-181 (Stockholm, Sweden) - link to contents: < https://kkrva.se/hot/2018:2/HoT-2-2018-innehall.pdf > & link to full-article download (PDF): < https://kkrva.se/hot/2018:2/HoT-2-2018-svendsen-adv-int-eng.pdf >.

#27Adam D.M. Svendsen, 'Getting Somewhere? The Utility of "Multiplexic Thinking" in Connecting International Relations to the Study and Doing of Intelligence', Journal of European and American Intelligence Studies (JEAIS), 1, 1 (2018) - further information via:
click here for article access information --->>> | see also here for the article's preview PDF, with abstract/summary --->>>

See also for a related 2009 discussion... --->>>

#28Adam D.M. Svendsen, 'On "Big Mind" thinking: A Collective Intelligence "paradigm" for our time? – Part 1 of 3', Collective Intelligence blog (Copenhagen Business School - CBS, Denmark: 28 September 2018) - via: <http://collectiveintelligence.dk/on-big-mind-thinking-a-collective-intelligence-paradigm-for-our-time-part-1-of-3/> (accessed: February 2020). Liked this? See also this 'Collective Intelligence (COLINT)' entry --->>>

#29Adam D.M. Svendsen, 'On "Big Mind" thinking: A Collective Intelligence "paradigm" for our time? – Part 2 of 3', Collective Intelligence blog (Copenhagen Business School - CBS, Denmark: 11 October 2018) - via: <http://collectiveintelligence.dk/on-big-mind-thinking-a-collective-intelligence-paradigm-for-our-time-part-2-of-3/> (accessed: February 2020).

#30Adam D.M. Svendsen, 'On "Big Mind" thinking: A Collective Intelligence "paradigm" for our time? – Part 3 of 3', Collective Intelligence blog (Copenhagen Business School - CBS, Denmark: 25 October 2018) - via: <http://collectiveintelligence.dk/on-big-mind-thinking-a-collective-intelligence-paradigm-for-our-time-part-3-of-3/> (accessed: February 2020).

#31Adam D.M. Svendsen, 'Intelligence Liaison into the 2020s and Beyond: Emerging as "Challenged, but not Overwhelmed" from the Trump Era', Journal of European and American Intelligence Studies - JEAIS (September 2019) - via: < https://rieas.gr/intelligence-journal/current-issue/3020-unheard-voices-intelligence-approaches-beyond-the-conventional > (accessed: September 2020).

#32Adam D.M. Svendsen, 'Enduring "Friends and Allies": The Twenty-First Century UK-US Special Intelligence Relationship', Udenrigs - Journal of the Danish Foreign Policy Society / Det Udenrigspolitiske Selskab (2019) - via: < https://udenrigs.dk/udenrigs/ > (accessed: March 2020).

#33Adam D.M. Svendsen, 'Doing "Intelligence Engineering" (IE)', LinkedIn Article (20 February 2020) - < https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/doing-intelligence-engineering-ie-adam-svendsen?articleId=6636333422551932928 > (accessed: February 2020). Learn more about 'Intelligence Engineering' (IE) --->>>

#34Adam D.M. Svendsen (with Salem B.S. Dandan), 'The "Intelligence Engineering" (IE) Rationale', RealClearDefense (Washington, DC: 10 April 2020) - via: < https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2020/04/10/the_intelligence_engineering_ie_rationale_115190.html > (accessed: April 2020).

And as also featured on The National Interest blog as 'Intelligence Engineering: The Spymaster's Guide To the 21st Century' (USA: 12 April 2020) via: < https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/intelligence-engineering-spymasters-guide-21st-century-143522 > (accessed: April 2020). See here for further IE resources --->>>

#35Adam D.M. Svendsen (with Salem B.S. Dandan), 'Doing Intelligence Differently via "Intelligence Engineering" (IE)', Small Wars Journal (18 April 2020) - via: < https://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/doing-intelligence-differently-intelligence-engineering-ie > (accessed: April 2020). Find out more about IE here --->>>

#36A.D.M. Svendsen, 'Addressing "Multiplexity": Navigating "multi-everything!" via Intelligence Engineering', www.stratagem.no - Military & Defence/Security blog (Oslo, Norway: 12 October 2021) - via: < https://www.stratagem.no/addressing-multiplexity-navigating-multi-everything-via-intelligence-engineering/ > (accessed: October 2021). Find out more about IE here --->>>

#37A.D.M. Svendsen, 'Risky or Rewarding? Navigating Diversity in Contemporary Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR)', RSIS Policy Report (Singapore: March 2022) - via: <https://www.rsis.edu.sg/rsis-publication/idss/risky-or-rewarding-navigating-diversity-in-contemporary-intelligence-surveillance-and-reconnaissance-isr-strategies/#.YjG-drinzOQ> // See also: this book chapter on ISR --->>> / more about IE here --->>>

#38A.D.M. Svendsen, '[Book Review Essay:] Decision Advantage: Intelligence in International Politics from the Spanish Armada to Cyberwar. By Jennifer E. Sims. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.', Journal of Strategic Security, 16, 4 (2023), pp.221-239 - available Open Access at/via: <https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/jss/vol16/iss4/14>.

For further research & analysis insights, see also commentary pieces & articles --->>>

Jump to date >>> 2011; 2012/13; 2014; 2015; 2016; 2017; 2018

#1A.D.M. Svendsen, ‘Intelligence Liaison: An essential navigation tool’, in J. Schroefl, B.M. Rajaee and D. Muhr (eds), Hybrid and Cyber War as Consequences of the Asymmetry (Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang International Publishers, 2011) – details online via: <https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/12998>.

#2A.D.M. Svendsen, ‘On “a continuum with expansion”? Intelligence co-operation in Europe in the early Twenty-first Century’ in C. Kaunert and S. Leonard (eds), European Security, Terrorism, and Intelligence: Tackling New Security Challenges in Europe (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan/Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics Series, 2013) – details online via: <https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9780230361812>. Direct chapter link ->>> GoogleBooks preview of chapter - >>> // Chapter data ->>> and for further overall book data, reviews, etc. - >>>

#3A.D.M. Svendsen, ‘1968 – “A year to remember” for the study of British Intelligence?’, in C.R. Moran and C.J. Murphy (eds), Intelligence Studies in Britain and the US: Historiography since 1945 (Edinburgh, Scotland/NY: Edinburgh University Press/Oxford University Press, 2013) – details online via: <https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-intelligence-studies-in-britain-and-the-us.html>. GoogleBooks preview of chapter ->>> // Direct chapter link ->>>

#4A.D.M. Svendsen, ‘“Strained” relations? Evaluating contemporary Anglo-American intelligence and security co-operation’, chapter 8 in S. Marsh and A. Dobson (eds), Anglo-American Relations: Contemporary Perspectives (London: Routledge/Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics Series, 2012 [PBk: December 2013]), from p.208 – details online via: <http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415678506/> and <http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415643412/> // GoogleBooks preview of the chapter - >>> / Direct T&F link to the chapter - >>> (accessed: January 2023). Liked this? See also this book --->>>

#5A.D.M. Svendsen, ‘Collective Intelligence (COLINT)’ entry in G. Moore (ed.), Encyclopedia of U.S. Intelligence (EUSI) (New York: Taylor & Francis/CRC Press, 2014) - details via: <http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781420089578 > and Abstract via: < https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781420089585/chapters/10.1081/E-EUSI-120049757 >. Liked this? See also a 2018 blog post on 'Collective Intelligence' --->>>

#6A.D.M. Svendsen (with Mark von Rosing, Henrik von Scheel, August-Wilhelm Scheer, et al.), ‘Business Process Trends’ chapter in their (eds.), The Complete Business Process Handbook: Body of Knowledge from Process Modeling to BPM, Volume 1 (Burlington, MA: Morgan Kaufmann/Elsevier, 2014), from p.187 - information via: <http://store.elsevier.com/The-Complete-Business-Process-Handbook/Mark-von-Rosing/isbn-9780127999593/> and Book website via: <http://www.bpmhandbook.com/> (accessed: 04/2015).

#7A.D.M. Svendsen, ‘Intelligence Liaison’, chapter in P.C. Oleson (ed.), AFIO's Guide to the Study of Intelligence (US Association of Former Intelligence Officers, October 2016 [1ed.]), from p.389 - further information via AFIO >>> / alternatively via amazon.com >>>

#8A.D.M. Svendsen (with M. Kruse), 'Foresight and the Future of Crime: Advancing Environmental Scanning Approaches’, chapter in H.L. Larsen, J.M. Blanco, R. Pastor Pastor, and R.R. Yager (eds.), Using Open Data to Detect Organized Crime Threats: Factors Driving Future Crime (London: Springer, 2017) - Book: <http://www.springer.com/gb/book/9783319527024> & book (meta)data - >>> / Chapter: <http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-52703-1_4>. See also book & chapter previews via: <https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YyylDgAAQBAJ> (April 2017). // Chapter (meta)data - >>>

#9A.D.M. Svendsen, 'Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR)’, chapter 22 in J. Deni and D. Galbreath (eds), Routledge Handbook of Defence Studies (London: Routledge, 2018) - further details via: <https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Defence-Studies/Galbreath-Deni/p/book/9781138122505> (September 2017). See a GoogleBooks preview of the chapter (February 2018) - >>> // Also, view a chapter abstract & contents via: https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315650463-23

Book:

ISR chapter data - via >>>

Interested in this ISR topic? Want to learn more? See also: 2022 policy/strategy insights & recommendations via this RSIS report --->>>

• A.D.M. Svendsen, 'The CIA and the Globalisation of Intelligence', presentation recording at the Landscapes of Secrecy: The CIA in History, Fiction and Memory Conference (East Midlands Conference Centre, University of Nottingham, UK: 29 April 2011) - listen via: < https://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2011/04/adam-svendsen-the-cia-and-the-globalisation-of-intelligence/ > (accessed: May 2021).
• ‘Buffeted not Busted: The UKUSA “Five Eyes” after Snowden’ (via e-IR.info, January 2014)
• ‘Resilience is essential’ in ‘Your View - Security Community asked: What role will natural disasters play for our future security?’, Security Community - The OSCE Magazine, Issue 3 (Vienna, Austria: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe - OSCE, 2014), p.31 - download via < http://www.osce.org/magazine/2014/3 >
• ‘“Smart Law” for Intelligence!’, via the Tech & Law Centre (University of Milan, Italy: July 2015) - Mobile view via LinkedIn's SlideShare: < https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/TechAndLaw/smart-intelligence > (accessed: July 2020).
• ‘Publishing tips’ video for authors, for Routledge/Taylor & Francis (August 2015) can be found via YouTube >>> // Transcript link (PDF) --->
• ‘Making arms control “smarter”? The importance of intelligence’, Utrikes Perspectiv (October 2015 [(magazine of the Association of Foreign Affairs, Lund University, Sweden)]), pp.56-57.
• ‘“Work-in-progress”? Revisiting the UK Serious and Organised Crime Strategy of 2013 and surveying UK efforts against transnational organised crime’, published via the RUSI Strategic Hub for Organised Crime Research (SHOC) - The Informer blog (8 November 2017) - >>>
• Various blog post contributions on 'Collective Intelligence' or COLINT - >>>
• Contribution on early-2020 UK Huawei Decision via 'IntelWatch', Jane's Intelligence Review - JIR (January/February 2020) - < https://www.janes.com/article/94233/intelwatch-january-february-2020 > (subscriber access link).
• 'Contribution on & introducing "Intelligence Engineering"', UK 'Defence and Security Doctoral Symposium (DSDS19)', conference organised by Cranfield University and the UK Defence Academy, Shrivenham (November 2019/Online: January 2020) - download poster (PDF) --->>>
• Several working ARC White Papers covering cyber scenarios, estimative/probabilistic language and Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen-AI) topics (from 2022+), co-authored with Dr. Bruce Garvey, MBA - via the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) --->>>

Quick links: intro >>> | rationale >>> | qualifications/experience >>> | key outputs/publications >>> | conference, workshop, etc., highlights >>> | Think+Do-tank: Bridgehead Institute (Research & Consulting) multi-sector/multi-purposed education & training >>>

Bridgehead Institute for Research & Consulting: Providers of insight + contextualisation to education + training products, services + solutions via the 'Bridgehead Methodology' + 'Intelligence Engineering' (IE).

Think+Do-tank: Strategy | Risk | Intelligence | Global + Regional Insight to Advisory.

We help you view the world, and understand the opportunities + possibilities available.

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Digital Delivery: The Bridgehead Institute can deliver its products & services digitally (not only as a flexible response to the uncertainties surrounding COVID-19, aka. the coronavirus).

(a) What?

Beyond merely conducting analysis ('what is it?') & assessment/estimation ('so what?'/'what does it mean?'/'why?') work, the Bridgehead Institute covers: Executive Education + Professional Military Education (PME) + (Advanced) Intelligence Analysis & Engineering Training (inc. in Strategic Futures & Strategic Foresight Analysis - SFA, [War-]Gaming, & Crisis to Strategic Communication).

A series of lectures to courses & fully-customisable 'hands-on'/interactive workshops are offered via the Bridgehead Institute (Research & Consulting - Insight, Training & Education) - contact via: research@asgonline.co.uk - to request more information & for a copy of the latest Marketing PDF Brochure, price guide, etc.

Available titles include:
- Short Course: 'Introducing Intelligence & Multi-INT (multiple intelligences) approaches (with examples of & from Open Source Intelligence - OSINT & Financial Intelligence - FININT, including FIUs)'
- Lecture: 'Strategic Futures & How to go forward'
- Lecture: 'Intelligence Engineering for War-gaming'
- Lecture: 'Intelligence Engineering for Strategic Communication (STRATCOM)'
- Lecture: 'Introduction to Intelligence Systems Thinking'
- Lecture: 'Defining & Doing Cyber Intelligence (CYBINT)'
- Lecture: 'Collective Intelligence (COLINT): A national-to-global security perspective'
- Course: 'Intelligence Today #1: Introduction to Intelligence during an era of Globalisation'
- Course: 'Intelligence Today #2: Introduction to "Advanced Intelligence Analysis & Engineering" (AIAE)'
- Course: 'Intelligence Today #3: Strategic Futures & How to go forward'
- 'Flagship' Workshop: 'Introducing & advancing an Intelligence Engineering framework'
- Subscription product: 'Strategic Snapshot (StratSnap)' - using an indicator board (see more below...).

Additional subscription services & products outline:

(i) OSINT to RESINT via Intelligence Engineering (IE) analysis & assessment:

Three different, yet interconnecting, main 'levels' of output are available - conducted to repeatable over end-user specified timeframes, & ranging from fastest to slower, more reflective, tempos:

(1) Basic: Generation of Open Source Information & Intelligence (OSINF/OSINT)-based insights into & focused on any selected topic.

Consists of:
(i) scanning/monitoring - via bespoke, tailored & end-user-agreed, semi-automated keyword searches - a range of Open Sources published on the Internet (e.g. drawing from media publications); &
(ii) production of a 'raw' output in PDF format - e.g. consisting of a scrollable/browsable list of 'headline'-presented results, with active links/URLs for further follow-up.

(2) Intermediate: Beginning analysis & evaluation, OSINF/OSINT results & output is lightly-annotated manually - e.g. with key sources highlighted &, where appropriate, with short comments being added in the PDF produced. Starting generation of research-originating intelligence ('RESINT') or 'OSINT+' ('OSINT-plus') product. (For more on RESINT, see via -->>)

(3) Advanced: The OSINT-based RESINT is then subjected to further in-depth-ranging analysis & assessment/evaluation via the applied process of the multi-stepped 'Intelligence Engineering' (IE) approach & methodology.

Contact via: research@asgonline.co.uk - to request more information & for a copy of the latest Marketing PDF Brochure, price guide, etc.

(ii) Horizon-to-Environmental Scanning:

‘Strategic Snapshot’ (StratSnap) - consists of the following:

• Can be focused on any chosen Theme/Issue/Problem/Risk/Hazard/Threat in any given place/location and at any date/time to provide a relative & reflective ‘snapshot’ for helping understanding, ranging from situational awareness to sense- & decision-making.
• A traffic-light-colour-coded indicator board (red-amber-green) infographic for visualisation.
• Pre-positioned checkboxes on the indicator board that provide basic, approx. scoring.
• When the selected checkbox scores are added together, they offer insight that enables the provision of a guide towards ascertaining potential future course(s) of action - ranging from Strategic Management to Crisis Management approaches - that could subsequently be adopted for guiding next ways forward.
• Can be individually to collectively (team) completed - for example, in meeting to workshop settings.

Contact via: research@asgonline.co.uk - to request more information & for a copy of the latest Marketing PDF Brochure, price guide, etc.

(b) Why?

'Not merely "Nice to Have", but "Need to Have"!' & 'Helping melt "self-licking ice-creams"!'

Valuable for insight-generation & contextual/situational awareness, such as for:

• thinking 'outside & beyond "boxes"';
• addressing 'missing dimensions'; &
• overcoming situations/conditions of 'cognitive dissonance', & more...

For Intelligence Engineering 'added value' & 'unique selling points' (USPs), view an introductory presentation ->>>

(c) Who for?

Useful for: the full-spectrum range of intelligence, defence, security, law-enforcement (including policing), military (conventional & special forces) to strategic, crisis & disaster management practitioners (field-operators & analysts; civilian & military).

Provides equal advantages for mainstream, private sector & commercial to financial business(es).

Bespoke & tailorable services & products, with operational up & across to strategic value, including for high(er)-level commanders & policy-/decision-makers (CIV/MIL & POL/MIL).

(d) Where to begin?

Why not start with our 'flagship' workshop, titled: 'Introducing & advancing an Intelligence Engineering framework'.

(e) How does it work?

The above 'flagship' workshop gives a highly participant-involved, bite-sized & step-by-step ‘walk-through’ of the Intelligence Engineering (IE) approach (aka. the ‘Bridgehead Methodology’).

In its ‘multi-scaler’ and 'multi-purposed' design, the workshop can be run & configured to focus on *whatever* is most precisely desired & required by participants - e.g. whatever is of most interest and/or concern.

This customisation ensures, e.g., buy-in & that the workshop most directly meets end-user ‘STARC' criteria, relating to it being: Specific, Timely, Accurate, Relevant and Clear.

For further Intelligence Engineering (IE) 'added value' & USPs, view its introductory presentation ->>> // see also its textbook - >>>

Feedback is always welcomed!

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