Sherman Kents Analytic Doctrine (Kent, 2007) is as pertinent today as it was when Kent authored it. Intelligence security and risk professionals should follow Kent’s advice, he says. He says intelligence analysts are needed because policy officials face challenges that analysts can help them manage. Kent would have opposed providing analyses that were intended for use by one set of policy players to force its views on others. For estimative analysis, this requires paying serious attention to seemingly less likely outcomes. For action analysis this means identifying and evaluating alternatives, leaving to policy clients the responsibility to recommend and choose.”]