Eclassroom Henley Putnam

The school was named to honor American Revolutionary War intelligence officers Colonel David Henley and General Israel Putnam, each of whom personified a different approach to the practice of espionage. Henley, contemplative and precise, specialized in organizing streams of raw data and extrapolating from it an enemy’s strengths and weaknesses.

Henley-Putnam School of Strategic Security is a school within National American University that focuses on intelligence management, counter-terrorism studies and protection management. It was named to honor American Revolutionary War intelligence officers Colonel David Henley and General Israel Putnam.

Colonel David Henley and General Israel Putnam both served under General George Washington in the American Revolutionary War. Henley specialized in organizing and analyzing streams of raw data, while Putnam focused on actively using agents, debriefing deserters, and interrogating prisoners to acquire intelligence.