It is the way our brain works
It is the way an intelligence community has to work
Intelligence
cycle is a theoretical model quite criticized but fairly coherent and insufficiently
explored. With its four “core functions” (direction, collection, processing and
dissemination), it may adequately describe the structure of an intelligence
community (command structures, collection teams, exploitation or analysis
services, communication structures) in a systemic approach (who does what?),
but it does not describe the intelligence process (what does intelligence function? how to make intelligence?).