Appreciation of intelligence culture to support geosecurity strategies

Abstract

This article not only describes the culture of intelligence as the way to provide adequate information for decision-making in a State but also analyzes how it should be considered in the processes to generate actions to improve security conditions. In order to operationalize these concepts, the descriptive method was used, to reflect on the importance of intelligence for political leadership and for the formulation of strategies that propitiate an adequate level of security. Within this vision, it is intended to reflect on the need for a global security scope, but without neglecting the intelligence associated with State interest. As an example of the aforementioned, the problem of drug trafficking in two countries of the Andean region, Colombia and Peru, is considered. The importance of an intelligence culture that conceptually considers political orientation but fundamentally guides its actions to support strategies that generate an adequate security scenario at the state and global level is highlighted.