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  title info:
    title: Critical thinking for strategic intelligence
  name:
    name part: Pherson, Katherine Hibbs
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Pherson, Randolph H.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: EBSCOhost
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2026
    edition: Fourth edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xli, 511 pages) : illustrations (black and white.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Part I. How do I get started? -- Who Are Your Clients? -- What Are the Key Questions? -- What Is the Broader Context for the Analysis? -- How Should I Conceptualize My Product? -- What Is My Analytic Approach? -- Can Collaboration Contribute to a Better Answer? -- Part II. Where Is the Information I Need? -- How Do Models and Artificial Intelligence Help My Analysis? -- What Types of Information Are Available? -- Can I Trust the Sources? -- How Should I Assess the Reliability of Internet Information? -- Part III. What Is My Argument? -- Are My Key Assumptions Well-Founded? -- Can I Make My Case? -- Did I Consider Alternative Hypotheses? -- How Do I Present to Policymakers? -- How Might I Be Spectacularly Wrong--or on the Doorstep of an Unmitigated Success? -- Part IV. How Do I Convey My Message Effectively? -- Is My Argument Persuasive? -- How Should I Portray Probability, Levels of Confidence, and Quantitative Data? -- How Can Graphics Support My Analysis? -- Am I Presenting My Message in the Most Compelling Way? -- How Do I Know When I Am Finished? -- Appendix A. Definitions of Biases and Traps -- Appendix B. Definitions of Intuitive Traps -- Part V. Case studies -- Uncharted Territory in the Arctic -- Blackout on the Eastern Seaboard! -- The End of the Era of Aircraft Carriers? -- The Case of Iraq's Aluminum Tubes -- Glossary of Terms -- List of Names -- Recommended Readings -- US Government Publications -- Index.
  note: Katherine Hibbs Pherson and Randolph H. Pherson.
  note: Previous edition: 2020.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Critical thinking
  subject:
    topic: Intelligence service
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Intelligence service
    topic: Methodology
  subject:
    topic: Artificial intelligence
  subject:
    topic: Decision making
  subject:
    topic: Pensée critique
  subject:
    topic: Service des renseignements
    genre: Études de cas
  subject:
    topic: Service des renseignements
    topic: Méthodologie
  subject:
    topic: Intelligence artificielle
  subject:
    topic: Prise de décision
  subject:
    topic: artificial intelligence
  subject:
    topic: decision making
  subject:
    topic: Critical thinking
  subject:
    topic: Intelligence service
  classification: HD69.B87 P44 2026
  classification: 327.12
  related item:
    identifier: (OCoLC)1579000799
  identifier: 9781071902295 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 1071902296 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9781071902288
  identifier: 1071902288
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: NhCcYBP
    record creation date: 260714
    record change date: 20260805161510.1
    record identifier: in00005788647
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng