Etymology

analytic tradecraft

Today it means: The part of tradecraft concerned with the analysis of intelligence Full definition →

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The story

A phrase coined by Jack Davis, for decades one of the foremost instructors on the craft of analysis at the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

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