Interagency Performance in Counterterrorism Operations: Implications for the “Gray Zone”, PRP 201

Abstract

Our project examined integration and cooperation between the intelligence community and special operations forces in the years leading up to and after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Our research confirmed our original assumption that a close examination of the partnerships that emerged in this mission area would yield important truths and applicable lessons for interagency cooperation on other national security challenges, especially those found in the area between war and peace referred to as the “gray zone.”