 purely military matters concerning hostile countries), but engages in a state, economic, industrial-developmental, internal security, and political areas which often do not have an immediate, literal military meaning.Israel is the only liberal-democracy in the world where military intelligence is charged with assessing the intelligence map on a national, military, and "state" levels, and there have been repeated calls to transfer some of these roles from the Research Department to a civilian body, such as the National Security Council, as is the case in the United States.The Department is currently led by Brigadier-General Itay Brun.