'I commend Kjetil Hatlebrekke's book. It challenges readers to rethink our approach to the interpretation and use of intelligence, which is crucial to modern governments.'
Lord Robin Butler, Former UK Cabinet Secretary, Former Master of University College, Oxford

Moving beyond the flawed model of classic intelligence production

Why is intelligence so hard to define? Why is there no systematic or adequate theory of intelligence? This book argues that classic intelligence production has been premised on an ill-founded belief in an automatic inference between history and the future, and that the lack of a working theory has exacerbated this problem. Kjetil Anders Hatlebrekke uses classic cases of intelligence failure to demonstrate how this problem creates a restricted language in intelligence communities that undermines threat perception. From these cases Hatlebrekke concludes that intelligence needs to be re-thought and argues that good intelligence is the art of threat perception beyond the limits of our habitual thinking and shared experience.

Kjetil Anders Hatlebrekke is Associate Professor at the Norwegian Defence Intelligence School. He has served in the Norwegian Armed Forces since 1990, and served as an intelligence officer in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Anaconda.

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ISBN 978-0-7486-9183-8
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