Decision Advantage

Jennifer E. Sims is a non-resident Senior Fellow with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Before this residency, Sims was a core faculty member and Director of Intelligence Studies in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service while also serving as a presidential appointee on the USG's Public Interest Declassification Board (2008-2011) and as a member Director of National Intelligence's Senior Advisory Group. During her more than ten years of US government service, Dr. Sims was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence Coordination (1994-1998) and Intelligence Advisor to the Under Secretary for Management and Coordinator for Intelligence Resources and Planning at the US Department of State (1998-2001). In 1998, Dr. Sims received the Intelligence Community's highest civilian award, the National Distinguished Service Medal, for developing the concept of intelligence Support to Diplomatic Operations (SDO) and implementing it during theBalkan War with the establishment of the first Diplomatic Intelligence Support Center in Sarajevo.

• 1. Intelligence and Decision Advantage in International Politics2. The Spanish Armada3. Gaining Decision: Advantage in the Anglo-Spanish War4. Intelligence Lessons from The Spanish Armada5. Battlefield Intelligence: The Battles of First Manassas and Chancellorsville During the US Civil War6. Gaining Advantage: First Manassas and Chancellorsville7. Intelligence Lessons from Civil War Battlefields8. Intelligence for the Chase: Races, Chases, and Interdictions in Complex Contingencies 9. Intelligence Support to Diplomacy10. Knowledge and Diplomacy in the Era of Total War11. Gaining Diplomatic Advantages before WWI12. Intelligence and Decision in 193813. A Theory of Intelligence in International Politics14. 21st Century Intelligence: Distributed Power and Cyberwar Appendix 1: Report By Nuño Da Silva, Portuguese Pilot Captured by Francis Drake, 19.1.1578Appendix 2: A General Theory of IntelligenceIndex

This lengthy work gives readers a great deal to ponder, particularly Sims's illustration of the critical roles that intelligence gathering and analysis play in determining the course of conflict, invisible though they often are.