Exploring the future of strategic analysis, this book identifies problems at the heart of the historical U.S. failure to perform effective strategic analysis, then explains and dramatizes how new applications of information technology can make significant progress possible. Certain specific limitations of human memory, says the author, are major ca

Albert Clarkson is manager of decision research and technology at ESL, Inc., where he has directed a number of projects concerned with national defense and security problems. He formerly was head of the strategic research department at ESL.

Also of Interest -- Preface -- Introduction -- Strategic Analysis Model -- Strategic Analysis Measures -- The Art of Strategic Analysis -- The Strategic Analyst in the Future: Speculations