The National Intelligence University

摘要

In the Commandant's Planning Guidance, Gen Berger observes that the "complexity of the modern battlefield and increasing rate of change requires a highly educated force."2 The Marine Corps Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Enterprise (MCISRE) concept echoes this sentiment, calling for "an intelligent workforce, uniformed and civilian, [that] anchors the MCISRE with the skills, professional acumen, and functional expertise that mark them as a world-class contributor to our Corps and IC [Intelligence Community] missions."3 As we prepare current and future leaders to rise to the challenges of great power competition, the National Intelligence University (NIU) is uniquely capable of building on service training and education to develop the highly educated intelligence professionals envisioned in the Commandant's guidance and the MCISRE concept. Having evolved over nearly six decades from a narrowly focused military intelligence training organization into the Intelligence Community's premier educational institution, NIU now offers a wide range of undergraduate and graduate programs, certificates, joint professional military education, and continuing education courses. These programs afford unparalleled oppor- tunities to prepare Marines-officer and enlisted, active and reserve component-to excel in intelligence assignments in which they directly interact with or operate as part of the joint force or the interagency.