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In November 2022, LTC Mitch Wander, JSOU Faculty, interviewed Dr. Shay Hershkovitz about his new book The Future of National Intelligence: How Emerging Technologies Reshape Intelligence Communities. Dr. Hershkovitz shares his insights of a roadmap for an intelligence community that supports decision-makers and all intelligence consumers to help planners, analysts, and leaders in the special operations community and beyond.  Dr. Hershkovitz details actionable analysis and recommendations for a way ahead to reshape the Intelligence community with a design for getting closer to the optimal change and new capabilities for the intelligence community of the future. 
Dr. Hershkovitz recommended reading: Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner

Dr. Shay Hershkovitz is a senior research fellow at the Intelligence Methodology Research Center in Israel. He has more than 25 years of experience in the strategy and research industry space, including in the government sector, startups, and academia. In the past three decades, he has moved in both practitioner and academic circles, where he has gained extensive knowledge of intelligence, strategy, AI/ML, crowdsourcing, and geopolitical analysis. Hershkovitz is the author of The Future of National Intelligence: How Emerging Technologies Reshape Intelligence Communities (2022), the coauthor of AMAN Comes to Light: Israeli Military Intelligence in the 1950s (2013), and author of dozens of academic articles. He writes regularly for such U.S. media as Wired, TechCrunch, and TheHill.com and speaks to a variety of audiences.

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Mitchell Wander
Mitchell Wander

Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) Mitchell Wander, an Army Reserve Cyber Warfare Officer, helped establish and currently instructs the Cyberspace and Special Operations Forces (CSOF) course at Joint Special Operations University (JSOU). His previous military roles include leading a forensics and malware team, coordinating operations for Army Cyber Command, and enabling the combat readiness of the Iraqi Army as an embedded Military Transition Team advisor. He specializes in cyber operations planning, risk management, and interagency coordination. LTC Wander holds a master’s degree from National Defense University, a master’s degree from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, and a bachelor’s degree in economics from The George Washington University.

Shay Hershkovitz
Shay Hershkovitz

Dr. Shay Hershkovitz is a senior research fellow at the Intelligence Methodology Research Center in Israel. He has more than 25 years of experience in the strategy and research industry space, including in the government sector, startups, and academia. In the past three decades, he has moved in both practitioner and academic circles, where he has gained extensive knowledge of intelligence, strategy, AI/ML, crowdsourcing, and geopolitical analysis. Hershkovitz is the author of The Future of National Intelligence: How Emerging Technologies Reshape Intelligence Communities (2022), the coauthor of AMAN Comes to Light: Israeli Military Intelligence in the 1950s (2013), and author of dozens of academic articles. He writes regularly for such U.S. media as Wired, TechCrunch, and TheHill.com and speaks to a variety of audiences.