How Spies Think: 10 Lessons in Intelligence Paperback – November 1, 2021

It’s a fairly good read, he brings some interesting experiences to the surface, I’m sure he had many more he can’t tell us about!

I appreciate Omand's attempt to explain the process of intelligence. However, he is not an analyst, a collector, or a reporter. He is a manager and therefore does have any training how the information is collected, processed, analyzed, and reported. He takes the final product, puts his spin on the report. This is not intelligence or is it real. This leads to what is known as "intelligence failures". Intelligence's job is to provide what is has found out, correlate with other sources, and come to a conclusion. There is too much in this book that indicates the title is wrong.....reading it will not provide the insight on how a spy thinks.

This is a very good book, with a good balance between methodology and examples/applications.

Un libro molto veloce e scorrevole che spiega un modello di analisi chiamato SEES. La matematica non è preponderante ed concetti espressi circa il teorema di Bayes sono spiegati abbastanza bene. Certamente da comprare per avere degli strumenti per leggere la realtà complessa odierna.

The author worked for for british intelligence, that is MI6. He is an insider. The cases discussed go back to the Zimmermann Telegramm, of WWI fame. The author does not shy away from revealing the failures. In the Falkland war, MI6 acted to late. The information on Saddam Husseins weapons of mass destruction were fabricated, though the german BND was partially responsible.While the process for handling information is used in the first hand by a secret service, it might be useful for the CEO of a company. If it wants to acquire another company.A book worth reading.GEORGE THALLER, author

Excelente libro sobre el pensamiento analítico

Information wise this book is a gem. Great, balanced information. Gives almost a recipe for finding balance in a world consumed by fake news, misinformation and disinformation.I do believe that book would be helpful for everyone. Maybe even life changing in a way. That’s why it bothers me that the book is written in an outdated way. This book, in my opinion, is unfortunately not written for an average person, younger audience (anyone below the age of 60) or anyone for whom English is not the first language. They way the sentences are written is painfully over complicated. This could be easily rewritten in a much more accessible way without loosing any greatness but only gaining more audience.Overall I’d say it’s worth the struggle of going through it for the sheer amount of ‘advice’ on how to sort information and how to analyse it.