Given the complexities and instabilities of the international security environment, and the fundamental importance of intelligence capabilities and capacity to defend the nation, this is a worrying circumstance. [...] Moreover, CFINTCOM is currently implementing the Defence Intelligence Enterprise Renewal (DIER) project, which is perhaps the most dynamic and exciting future-oriented intelligence development in government.27 The project addresses many of the historical challenges inherent in the defence intelligence program and will take about a decade to complete. [...] To build the conceptual and theoretical foundations on which the intelligence profession must be based, and to show the way to world-class capability and capacity, DND/CAF should establish a Canadian Intelligence Studies Research Centre (CISRC) at the RMC, reinforcing its leadership with a new endowed Chair of Canadian Intelligence Studies and Research. [...] The time has come to substantially enhance the breadth and depth of intelligence in the Canadian intelligence and security discourse. [...] In a number of private discussions with people involved, in some way, with the implementation of the Defence Intelligence Enterprise Renewal (DIER) project, recognition of the absence of intelligence education in DND/CAF, and the need for it, is openly acknowledged.
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