Answer to Question #177328 in English for Jjjj

Question

what role intelligence plays in the Christian faith particularly in late adulthood.

Answer 1

Religion has affected the gathering of intelligence since Biblical times. Beginning after World War II and the rise of the state of Israel, however, religion began to become a direct political issue for the first time since the Middle Ages. The 1979 Iranian revolution brought this development to center stage and student and practitioners of diplomacy began to study the interaction more carefully. The intelligence community has understood some of this at the tactical level, but like the diplomatic community, has been slow to comprehend how fundamentally religion changes geostrategic considerations, hinders collection, impacts analysis, and changes the nature of covert operations. Several bombings, kidnappings, and random terrorist activities topped by the Sept. 11, 2001 destruction of the World Trade Center have brought this issue home at both the strategic levels of politics, diplomacy and intelligence. To meet the challenge, the Intelligence Community needs to shift its paradigm substantially to meet the needs of its consumers at all levels, and to clear trails upward to those who affect the direction of national policy.