Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
SDE Akademi Dergisi, cilt.4, sa.3, ss.387-404, 2024 (Hakemli Dergi)
Intelligence is the process of utilizing and focusing information from all available sources, designed to reduce the level of uncertainty for the decision maker. Especially during World War II and the Cold War, research and development activities focused on intelligence studies and intelligence analysis. The intelligence wheel, a heuristic tool for describing the flow of information between intelligence communities and policy makers, provides a descriptive theory of intelligence that is a good starting point for the interaction between information (events), accumulation and decision. Since the beginning of intelligence activities, there have been a number of classical analysis techniques for analyzing data, such as problem solving techniques, decision making, statistics, etc. There are a number of classical analysis techniques created by adapting various analysis techniques used in sciences to intelligence. However, although these techniques are based on scientific foundations, it can be said that they are insufficient in meeting the evolving conditions of today’s world and in analyzing and interpreting developments. Structured analysis techniques are a set of processes for externalizing, organizing and evaluating analytical thinking. In this study, the importance of “Red Team Analysis”, which is one of the structured analysis techniques and classified as one of the creative thinking techniques, was revealed. This study was designed in qualitative research design and descriptive content analysis and document analysis were used. Document analysis requires the examination and evaluation of data in order to make sense, gain understanding and develop empirical knowledge. These sections, which form a meaningful whole in themselves, are named and coded under certain headings. In this direction, what Red Team Analysis is, why Red Team Analysis was chosen, what the Stages of Red Team Building are, the importance, benefits and limitations of Red Team Analysis were emphasized. Successful and unsuccessful examples of Red Team Analysis in the historical process have been evaluated.