Cultural Intelligence & Intelligence and Culture (catch all)

[William F. Owen]

we find that a large part of the (UK) intelligence community regard intelligence as an end in itself, rather than as a means to an end...

They also seem to risk averse, unwilling to give analysis based likely courses of action and preferring to give straight forward reports on what has or is happening.

Well that's a major step backwards since 1991, when I was getting trade qualified in this area. There was a huge amount of emphasis on "So what" and "What does that mean?"
...but that was back in the days before "the art of ISTAR" turned into the current load of garbage it patently is.