The failings of the Intelligence Community in the field are partly due to inflexible thinking. Accordingly, education versus training alone is needed so intelligence operatives can pursue their missions where instructions are poor or where they leave off altogether. Education should alleviate practitioners trying to fit the environment to their training rather than the reverse. The National Intelligence University will provide intelligence education with programs focused on understanding an adversary’s capabilities and intentions, along with broader intelligence challenges such as sociocultural trends and conflicts, failed and failing states, terrorism, proliferation, and the emergence of nonstate actors. Success calls for understanding intelligence, the importance of both intelligence training and education, and the need to synthesize these elements.