Philip H.J. Davies - Intelligence Consulting, Research and Training

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Dr. Philip H.J. Davies

Director, Brunel University Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies (BCISS)

Intelligence Scholarship
I am one of the very few British intelligence and security studies scholars approaching the subject in policy analysis and social science terms rather than historical study. Conceptually, I am mainly concerned with organisational analysis of intelligence institutions and the theory of 'intelligence culture'. I approach these studies in terms of both national case studies (chiefly in the UK) and transnational comparative analysis. My principal publications in these areas are:

Intelligence and Government in Britain and the United States: a Comparative Approach (Praeger 2012); an unprecedented two-volume comparative study of the two systems which also provides substantially new assessments of how the two intelligence communities evolved;

Joint Intelligence Doctrine

During 2010 my team and I were contracted by the MoD's Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre and Defence Intelligence to help produce the latest iteration of the British military Joint Intelligence Doctrine and a new, innovative doctrine on 'understanding' for operational commanders.

I remain involved in the on-going intelligence doctrine programme as a member of the 2* Steering Committee on Intelligence Doctrine.

JDP 2-00 Understanding and Intelligence Support to Joint Operations; the 'radical rethink' of intelligence doctrine
JDP 04Understandingnicknamed 'the marmite doctrine' -- those who understand it love it
JDN 1/10 Intelligence; laying the groundwork, largely on the basis of the BCISS Memorandum
The BCISS Memorandum on Intelligence Doctrine; described by a senior member of the Land Warfare Centre as 'the best thing written on military intelligence in 20 years'

Multimedia:

Audio podcast of 2011 conference paper: CIA versus the NIE
2010 interview with BBC World's Zeinab Badawi on the 'Moscow 11'.
2008 MSNBC interview regarding German BND investigation of tax fraud

In the press:

On the legalities of SIS paramilitary actions in, of all places, The Slate
2005 Guardian interview on The Open Side of Secrecy