Last week, George Friedman gave a talk at Johns Hopkins. These are notes from that talk. (four pages)

General principles of intelligence:

1. Fight the cult of process.
2. Fight the cult of PowerPoint Executive Summaries.
3. Take the long, hard road.
4. Fight the cult of the source.
5. Fight the cult of security [risk aversion].
6. Fight the cult of the classified.
7. Fight the cult of the NIE.
8. Fight the cult of ISR.
9. Analysts must be right or get fired.

Intelligence and Actionable Knowledge