Why Intelligence? Why do We Need to Include the Word Intelligence in the Romanian Language Dictionary?

Abstract

This paper advocates the introduction of the concept of intelligence in the Romanian language, in order to fill the current methodological gap. The need for a new concept emerged in the activity of Romanian intelligence services over a decade ago, when „intelligence” started to be used in parallel with „information” in external and internal missions.Our approach is focused on three dimensions, which we consider fundamental for our demarche: formulating a definition of intelligence, establishing its position in relation with other key-concepts from the cognitive field: data, information, intelligence and knowledge and underlining the differences between the four and finally making a brief presentation of the intelligence types, both in the military and intelligence field, and its extension to the business and academic sector in the last two or three decades.