The role of academic training in the Military Intelligence

Abstract

The strategic, prospective and competitive intelligence required by State decision makers can only be synthesized by analysts with the ability to interpret, correlate and integrate large volumes of diverse and dynamic information, ordering the significant and the insignificant through an exercise of pure reasoning that leads to evaluate the possibilities of strategic action in the future.

Therefore, the central question is how to strengthen the rational processing capacity of intelligence analysts. This is precisely the role of academic training, which consists in the development of knowledge, competences and skills of cognition and metacognition, which allow the analyst to improve the meta-cognitive process.