ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the most important findings on the function of intelligence during crisis management, the producer-consumer relationship, and the traditionalist versus activist dichotomy. It offers a critical introspection of its shortcomings and makes suggestions for further research in this field. Traditionally the intelligence imperative has been treated as a separate crisis management principle. Intelligence is a vital support activity throughout crisis management as its function and necessity has been demonstrated. The principle of limiting the means employed in the pursuit of crisis objectives had a greater and direct significance for the administration than it had for America’s adversaries as seen by the Reagan Administration’s inability to use military force against the TWA hijackers. The traditionalist discipline militates against analysts questioning policy. Crisis response tends to steer intelligence tasking and demands for analysis to support response strategies and plans that are focused on the immediate.
