Practical exercises
Each exercise drops you into a fictional tasking with several reports of very uneven quality. You do what an analyst actually does — grade the sources, find the gaps, test competing explanations and write the assessment — and then get marked against an expert answer key.
Grade every report on the Admiralty scale.
Name the unknowns that would change your answer.
Test each report against every explanation.
BLUF, key judgments, confidence, indicators.
Answer-key marking plus The Chief's critique.
Five break-ins at a port logistics park in nineteen days. A van, a pawn record, two whispers about the same brothers — and one detail everybody ignores.
A fourteen-month-old freight company moves $2.9 million in four months, and the pumps it imports weigh less than they should. Laundering, a tax dodge — or a messy but honest business?
Three regional water utilities, one remote-access product, three candidate culprits and a newspaper that has already decided. The minister wants a six-month outlook.
The Chief, the academy's AI instructor, can write a new practice brief pack built around the trap you want to practise — circular reporting, source grading, competing hypotheses and more. It can also question your reasoning while you work.
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