Richard S Girven

This report addresses the differences between research and intelligence analysis, what intelligence research has been and should be done, and how the National Intelligence University can make research contributions to the U. S. Intelligence Community.

The Boren Scholarship and Fellowship Awards grant funding for long-term, overseas, immersive study to U. S. undergraduate and graduate students who are committed to public service. The authors of this report conducted interviews and a survey to learn about the career paths and decisions of Boren awardees, understand how policy changes since 2013 may affect awardees' experiences, and inform plans to strengthen the program in the future.

Policy and U. S. Intelligence Community (IC) professionals have suggested that the IC is held in increasingly lower regard by some decisionmakers and that predictions have had variable success in influencing decisionmakers. Researchers explored whether and to what degree trust in intelligence predictions and national estimates has degraded over time and what factors might have driven any changes in the relationship between policymakers and the IC.

The U. S. government will need to proactively recruit, hire, screen, onboard, and provide continuous career-growth opportunities-and provide an exceptional candidate experience-to attract and retain new generations to the national security workforce. This report explores how security, suitability, and credentialing mechanisms might benefit from a formalized candidate experience strategy and framework to create a more positive vetting experience.

From 2001 to 2021, despite deteriorating conditions and no apparent hope of military victory, the United States pursued an unchanging policy objective in Afghanistan: to prevent a terrorist group from using the country as a haven in which to plan or launch an attack on the United States. The authors examined the reasons behind this policy inertia through interviews with the senior leaders involved in policy deliberations between 2001 and 2016.

The U. S. Department of Defense's (DoD's) Language Training Center Program leverages the expertise and infrastructure of institutions of higher education to train DoD personnel in language, culture, and regional area studies. Evaluating the program in its eighth year, RAND researchers found that it is fulfilling its mandate and identified ways to strengthen it.

As U. S. military action in Afghanistan stabilizes below its peak levels, the U. S.-Pakistan security relationship will enter a new phase. Formulating a strategy for future engagement requires a deep understanding of Pakistan's security imperatives: the factors that determine what partnership types are realistic, and the geopolitical and historical forces that shape Pakistan's cooperation with the United States. This report examines such factors.

This report presents findings from an examination of six historical case studiesa "in Iraq, Jordan, Pakistan, the Philippines, Uganda, and Yemena "in which the mission of special operations forces in each of the six countries transitioned over time to include some level of inclusion in the U. S. embassya (TM)s Security Cooperation Office, with a focus on what lessons these experiences offer for the transition of SOF in Afghanistan.