Introduction The 21 st century has witnessed a lot of transformation in regards to intelligence and security issues. The latter have become more pronounced in the western political discourse (Bell 2003, 245). Strategic intelligence issue has been a major topic of discussion since the September 11 terror attacks in the United States (Orton and Callahan 2008, 411). The public has a lot of expectation from the intelligence team since there is a growing feeling that the western societies are vulnerable to more attacks in future (Honig 2007, 699). The debate over the role of intelligence has resulted into the need to conduct further research to examine the future challenges facing the National Intelligence Community. Researchers, journalists and scholars possess the feeling that Strategic Intelligence has been neglected for a long time leading to frequent terror attacks (Johnson 2003, 638). It is barely five decades since Strategic Intelligence became a serious academic study. There is need to conduct a research study to examine why Strategic Intelligence has been neglected (Scott and Jackson 2004, 142). Significance of the study Research has shown that that Strategic Intelligence is largely an abstract theory which has been put in place to frighten people who are a threat to global security (Lillbacka 2013, 307). Such a scenario has led to lack of practicality in intelligence. It has also been a major challenge and obstacle for the National Intelligence Community in preventing potential threats against security. The significance of this study is to examine possible challenges of neglecting Strategic Intelligence and to identify tactical measures that can be put in place by the National Intelligence Community to control the challenges posed by poor global security. The proposed study will be guided by realism theory. This theoretical framework will help the researcher to examine the realities of security challenges and accurately present findings in an authentic manner in order to establish the exact measures that are supposed to be taken in response to the topic being studied. Research question and hypothesis What are the likely challenges that the National Intelligence Community will continue to face in future due to the neglect of Strategic Intelligence? This study will be guided by a hypothesis which states that the National Intelligence Community will continue to face challenges in future due to neglect of Strategic Intelligence on security matters. The objective of this study is to identify some of the possible challenges facing the National Intelligence Community owing to gross neglect of Strategic Intelligence on matters related to security. In this study, a descriptive and systematic review approach will be used to gather information related to the topic of study. To elaborate further, case studies and surveys will be used in order to examine how intelligence has been applied at the national and international levels. Reviewing peer-reviewed sources such as books, journals and other publications in order to infer what other researcher have done about the subject matter will also be part of the research design. Qualitative research methods such as content analysis will be crucial in the study design in order to collect suitable information related to the re