The U.S. Navy’s 2016 strategic guidance, A Design for Maintaining Maritime Superiority, invokes lessons from the masters – Alfred Thayer Mahan, Sir Julian Corbett, Carl Von Clausewitz, Sun Tzu and Mao Zedong. The Design also cites emerging challenges to U.S. military advantages. U.S. naval intelligence must reshape itself by similarly examining historical truths and leveraging its understanding of potential adversaries to divine whether the nature of warfare has changed in the Information Age. Moving forward, naval intelligence should take a leading role in evolving the Information Warfare Community (IWC) that the Navy created in 2009 to integrate the Intelligence, Cryptology, Information Professional (information technology and communications), and Oceanography Communities.
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