American Intelligence and National Security Decision-making

2 Credits.

This course will cover the essential practices of American intelligence, focused on how it collects and analyzes information with both traditional techniques and increasingly available open-source information. Based on that, the course will dig deeply into fields in which all of these approaches come together, such as covert action, counterintelligence, and deception, while looking also at relations with foreign intelligence services. Throughout, the emphasis will be on how all of this informs and influences American national security decision-making. The course will feature a number of practical, hands-on exercises to illustrate these points.