Intelligence Analysis: A Target-Centric Approach

About Robert M. Clark

Robert M. Clark has more than five decades of U.S. intelligence community experience. A USAF lieutenant colonel (retired) Dr. Clark served as an electronics warfare officer and intelligence officer. At the CIA he was a senior analyst and group chief responsible for developing analytic methodologies. He was cofounder and CEO of the Scientific and Technical Analysis Corporation a privately held company serving the U.S. intelligence community. Clark holds an SB from MIT a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois and a JD from George Washington University. Beyond analyzing wicked intelligence issues his passion is writing on the topic of intelligence. His books include Intelligence Analysis: A Target-Centric Approach (5th edition 2016) The Technical Collection of Intelligence (2010) and Intelligence Collection (2014). He is coauthor with Dr. William Mitchell of Target-Centric Network Modeling (2015) and Deception: Counterdeception and Counterintelligence (2019); and coeditor with Dr. Mark Lowenthal of Intelligence Collection: The Five Disciplines (2015). Dr. Clark also develops and teaches courses for audiences in academia national intelligence and the military. He currently serves as an adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins University teaching graduate courses.