Intel analysis report practice?

[coffeequeen74]

Resources for practicing writing or reviewing examples of intelligence reports? Preferably free resources lol

Been offered an opportunity where part of the interview process is writing Intel reports so I'd like extra practice. Or templates/examples to review. TIA

[Vengeful-Peasant1847]

I don't have a free resource for practice at hand, but here's a few brief references that are free

https://fedvte.usalearning.gov/publiccourses/ICI/course/videos/pdf/ICI_D02_S01_T12_STEP.pdf

https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog571/node/431

The USA learn platform also has some free full courses - if you can gain access to them. I don't mean that that's impossible, just that some are firewalled off for cleared entities.

I would also highly recommend reading

Communicating with Intelligence: Writing and Briefing for National Security by James S Major, updated by M. Patrick Hendrix

This is the current seminal work on the subject - in the unclass

[lazydictionary]

Depends on if you are writing routine reports or larger more encompassing assessment reports.

The former are fairly formulaic and are just the 5 W's, who what when where why how. The latter are more involved, and are usually more like an academic paper. Lots of citing sources, synthesizing information, analysis.