It's been said numerous times in The Corner that there is no mystery recipe for carrying out understanding analysis. While CI analysts have literally hundreds of forms, procedures, and devices on which to rely to accumulate, understand, and broadcast data, each and every analytic dispute claims its own exclusive approach. Anyone seeking to shortcut the human considered method by encouraging a rote sequence of steps to pursue for productive investigation should to be subject to a year's worth of supervising aim assembly sessions.
Absent a recipe for investigation, I've observed that analysts pursue a roadmap when analyzing and understanding ...