Training for the Next Fight: Why “A Good Analyst Is Still a Good Analyst”

As the tools of warfare change faster than the doctrine written to govern them, one question is quietly reshaping the intelligence community: are we training professionals for the fight that’s coming, or the one we already fought? In the third episode of The ISR Debrief, host Wesley Rose convenes three leaders with nearly a hundred years of combined experience to answer it — Chad Hartman, Jason “Stutz” Stutzman, and Jeff “Monty” Montgomery, all retired U.S. Air Force intelligence officers now leading training and solutions at Integrity ISR. The discussion begins with the intelligence cycle — the planning, collection, processing, analysis, and dissemination loop that has anchored analytical training for generations. […]