INTELLIGENCE, MILITARY. Under this designation may be considered the work of obtaining, collating, interpreting and distributing information, in peace and war, about foreign powers, the countering of foreign powers' efforts to obtain in telligence, and the organization which performs these duties. In formation as to actual or potential enemies, allies and theatres of war, has always been required and obtained by governments and commanders in the field; the employment of spies, the ques tioning of prisoners, date from the earliest times in history, but never have the scope, and what might be termed the technique of military intelligence, reached such a high degree of develop ment as in the World War.