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Intelligence Community

Analyzing The U.S. Intel Community’s Strategic Priorities

By Brian Garrett-Glaser

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019

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Analyzing The U.S. Intel Community’s Strategic Priorities

(Photo by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence)

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…

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