Intelligence Theory and Practice is an academic journal mainly focusing on intelligence theory, method and application technology. The journal was founded in 1964 and was originally called Military Industrial Intelligence Work, renamed Intelligence Theory and Practice in 1987, and became the journal of China National Defense Science and Technology Information Society in 1996. In 1996, it became the journal of China National Defense Science and Technology Information Society. Since 2009, the journal has been changed from a bimonthly to a monthly publication.
The main columns of the journal include Forum, Special Topics, Theory and Exploration, Practical Research, Information System, Review and Commentary, Foreign Countries, and Abstracts, etc., which cover the research and development of intelligence, digitalization of libraries, information retrieval technology, network information resource management, enterprise competitive intelligence, and information management system, and so on.