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If you are interested in intelligence analysis, are looking for a career in intelligence analysis, or already work in the intelligence community and need CPD, then this is the course for you.
The author of this course has 17 years military intelligence and 8 years national law enforcement experience. This experience covers intelligence analysis, management and collection.
The lead instructor has deployed to Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo, West Africa and Europe in intelligence roles over the past 17 years.
If you are interested in intelligence analysis, are looking for a career in intelligence analysis, or already work in the intelligence community and need CPD, then this is the course for you.
The author of this course has 17 years military intelligence and 8 years national law enforcement experience. This experience covers intelligence analysis, management and collection.
The lead instructor has deployed to Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo, West Africa and Europe in intelligence roles over the past 17 years.
This is a comprehensive course, covering Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 Intelligence Analysis, in one place.
Level 1 - Module 1 and 2
Level 2 - Module 3, 4 and 5
Level 3 - Module 6
Certificate of completion - All modules, assignments and quizzes
The course will take you through complex topics of intelligence analysis, is a gradual and progressive manner, to aid your learning. Some elements are repeated, which is designed to revise and refresh your knowledge throughout the course.
This course will teach you:
- What the intelligence cycle is and how it operates
- How to use intelligence analysis tools and develop your analytical skills
- How to use and identify different intelligence collection disciplines
- How intelligence is disseminated and develop your dissemination skills
- Advanced concepts such as predictive analysis, targeting and threat intelligence
Each module is then subdivided into lessons lasting 4-30 minutes, with male and female instructor voice overs.
Each module has an assignment and/or quiz to test your knowledge, with feedback from the lead instructor.
At any time, you can message the team for feedback or to seek clarification or context on a topic.
Module one test
- What is Intelligence?
- Define terms relating to Intelligence
- Distinguish between Data, Information and Intelligence
- Understand the need for accurate intelligence analysis
- Describe the ‘so what’
- Understand what Direction is and how it is applied
- Understand the Collection process
- Understand how Processing of information results in intelligence
- Understand the principles and methods of Dissemination
- Understand what Direction is and how it is applied
- Provide an overview of Direction and how to direct intelligence staff
- Explore the Intelligence Collection Plan
- Understand how to formulate Information Requirements
- Understand the Collection process
- Recognise how requests for information should be compiled
- Identify key types of intelligence collection disciplines
- Understand the importance of Collation
- Understand the role of Evaluation of intelligence
- Develop your Analysis skills
- Identify how intelligence is bought together under Integration
- Understand how intelligence is developed through Interpretation
- Understand the principles of dissemination
- Understand the benefits and issues of types of dissemination
Quiz covering all topics in this module.
- Understand the method to conducting a SWOT analysis
- Identify the internal and external factors that affect a target
- Understand the four key principles of network analysis
- Understand the seven stages of network analysis
- Understand the methods of reducing information down to extract entities
- Identify entities and associations
- Produce a network diagram for further analysis
- Understand the need for pattern analysis
- Understand the three step approach to pattern analysis
- Know how to use five pattern analysis tools
- Construct realistic hypotheses on future activity
- Understand PMESII – ASCOPE analysis
- Construct a PMESII – ASCOPE table
- Understand the need for source evaluation
- Understand the need for information assessment
- Understand the different types of intelligence collection methods
- Know how to request information from intelligence collection assets
- Understand how surveillance can be used to gather intelligence
- Understand the differences between Unwilling, Willing and Unwitting sources of HUMINT
- Understand the difference between Covert and Overt HUMINT collection
- Develop an insight into the legal framework around HUMINT collection
- Understand how HUMINT can aid in developing the intelligence picture
- Understand the importance of different communication types
- Learn how to structure various forms of questions
- Understand why we use questions
- Understanding different types of listening techniques
- Know how to structure any questioning based activity
- Identify the three different levels of open source information
- Understand how search engines work and how best to use them
- Understand how social media accounts can be used for intelligence collection
- Understand how to save intelligence for future purposes
- Understand how intelligence can be extracted from images
- Learn about the role of a Watchkeeper within an organisation
- Know how to conduct research into companies and websites
- Understand how good digital hygiene is important when conducting OSINT research
- Understand the different types of Imagery Intelligence (IMINT)
- Identify the benefits and limitations of using open source imagery
- Recognise how to apply analysis to imagery to generate useful imagery products
- Understand the definitions of surveillance
- Identify different forms of surveillance
- Know how surveillance techniques can be deployed
- Understand the role of the analyst in surveillance deployments
A short video explaining some of the concepts of Human Intelligence (HUMINT) collection.
- Revise the principles of dissemination
- Understand the four different types of verbal briefing
- Understand the model for intelligence briefing
- Understand the benefits and issues of types of dissemination
- Apply the principles for effective briefing
*Note - this lesson includes revision on the principles of dissemination. Skip to 6min 55s if you have recently completed the Dissemination lesson.
- Revise the principles of dissemination
- Understand the three main types of written dissemination
- Understand the benefits and issues of types of dissemination
*Note - this lesson includes revision on the principles of dissemination. Skip to 6min 10s if you have recently completed the Dissemination lesson.
- Revise the principles of dissemination
- Understand how graphical dissemination can aid intelligence dissemination
- Understand the benefits and issues of graphical dissemination
*Note - this lesson includes revision on the principles of dissemination. Skip to 6min 08s if you have recently completed the Dissemination lesson.
- Revise assessment language terminology
- Explore the concept of horizon scanning
- Understand second and third order effects
- Understand black swan theory
- Develop skills of predictive analysis
- Revise assessment language terminology
- Explore the concept of the human terrain
- Identify key tools used in human terrain analysis
- Understand human security and it’s relationship with intelligence
- Develop skills of predictive analysis
- Revise the concept of the Intelligence Cycle
- Understand the Targeting Cycle
- The relationship between Intelligence and Targeting
- Terminology
- Types
- Target development
Explore each stage of the targeting cycle in depth:
Find
Fix
Finish
Exploit
Analyse
- Understand the concept of “Attack the network”
- Explore networking targeting
- Identify key nodes suitable for targeting
- The Intelligence Cycle and it’s role
- Definition of threat
- Threat types
- Definition of Threat Intelligence (TI)
- Collecting TI
- Operationalising TI
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