Center for Peace and Security Studies

Throughout the history of armed conflict, intelligence has played an increasingly larger, and more permanent role in national security strategies. At the end of the Cold War, though, many in the United States were at a loss as to where intelligence should fit in without a large, militarily powerful enemy. But, as the war on terror has come to the forefront, intelligence is again playing a significant role.

Dr. David Kahn, acclaimed author of the book The Codebreakers, and a noted intelligence historian, examines the function of institutional intelligence throughout history, and, now that intelligence has come of age, what part it may play in preventing terrorist attacks and helping the U.S. win the war on terror