A high-stakes power struggle sprang up inside the U.S. intelligence community as Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard moved to wrest control of President Donald Trump's daily intelligence briefing from the CIA, the Daily Mail has learned.

With the Iran and Israel war in full swing, the Russia-Ukraine war still churning and Chinese military forces training at an accelerated pace, whoever controls the distribution of the nation's most classified intelligence has the upper hand in shaping the decision-making process in whether to wage war.