On National Security Intelligence
Year: 2024

This chapter presents a case for intelligence to be understood as institutionalised joint epistemic activity in the service of national security decision-making in an adversarial environment.. This definition is important to show how intelligence practices differ from that of military practice. That is, in warfare, the primary activities involve kinetic or physical actions. In intelligence, however, the primary activities are epistemic even if intelligence is used to support the military in warf