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Intelligence Analysis in the Age of AI — Course Index

A complete course for intelligence analysts, OSINT practitioners, and national security professionals. 12 modules, 31 episodes — from analytic tradecraft to agentic AI workflows.

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Module 1

  1. Intelligence as a Decision Support Discipline~39 min
  2. Heuer, Bias, and the Limits of Human Judgment~35 min
  3. Estimative Language and the Analytic Product~36 min

Module 2

  1. The Intelligence Cycle and Its Discontents~34 min
  2. Structured Analytic Techniques in the Real World~34 min

Module 3

  1. OSINT Before AI: Bellingcat, Digital Forensics, and the New Tradecraft~37 min
  2. OSINT Beyond National Security: Corporate, Financial, and NGO Intelligence~41 min
  3. Commercial Imagery, SAR, and GEOINT for the Open-Source Analyst~36 min

Module 4

  1. From Inbox Overload to Machine Triage~47 min
  2. AI Translation, Transcription, and the Illusion of Total Coverage~35 min

Module 5

  1. AI-Assisted ACH, Indicators, and Counter-Arguments~38 min
  2. Smoothing, Over-Confidence, and AI-Driven Groupthink~35 min
  3. Briefing the Customer: AI-Assisted Analysis and the Trust Problem~39 min

Module 6

  1. AI-Enhanced OSINT Pipelines: From Scrape to Graph~41 min
  2. Synthetic Media, Deepfakes, and Graph-Based Verification~40 min
  3. Timeline Analysis and Multi-Source Event Reconstruction~40 min

Module 7

  1. Graphs and Networks: The Hidden Skeleton of Modern Intelligence~37 min
  2. Simple Quantitative Methods Analysts Actually Use~39 min
  3. Financial Intelligence and Dark Money Networks~44 min

Module 8

  1. From One-Off Prompts to Analytic Agents~43 min
  2. Governance for Analytic Agents: Logs, Limits, and Kill Switches~40 min
  3. Building Your First Analytic Workflow: A Practitioner's Walkthrough~40 min

Module 9

  1. Classic Deception Meets Machine Learning~35 min
  2. Prompt Injection and OSINT Poisoning in Practice~38 min

Module 10

  1. Why Benchmarks Don't Tell You If an AI Can Do Intelligence~38 min
  2. Evaluating AI-Augmented Analysis: A Practical Framework~38 min

Module 11

  1. The AI-Enabled Analytic Team and How to Build It~37 min
  2. Legal, Ethical, and Policy Boundaries in AI-Augmented OSINT~40 min

Module 12

  1. Enduring Principles in a Changed Landscape~38 min
  2. Personal and Institutional Roadmaps~44 min
  3. AI Geopolitics and the Chinese Frontier~43 min