
How does the U.S. intelligence community view the state of the world? This is not a question the public often gets answers to. Every four or five years, however, the intelligence community (IC) releases a National Intelligence Strategy (NIS) document, setting the agenda for the country’s 17 intelligence agencies and providing insight into how the IC views rival nations, political strife and technological developments at a high level. The 2019 NIS released this week contains many of the same threat…