A World Emerging from Pandemic

This United States Government National Intelligence University publication, A World Emerging from Pandemic, explores how the COVID-19 pandemic may reshape the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC). Yet, it is not a volume about the COVID-19 pandemic. In the pages that follow, the COVID-19 pandemic is a stand-in, a proxy, for a much larger challenge: complexity. Complexity, of course, predates COVID-19. It is something that has always been with us. However, if COVID-19 has taught us anything it ought to be that complexity—in myriad forms—is now the predominant security challenge confronting us.