Board Thread:Television/@comment-1713281-20131004113215/@comment-4651179-20140420195341

As far as I know in next episode's preview Koening mentions that S.H.I.E.L.D. is definetely no more.

Maybe the people closer to Coulson shouldn't know he's alive because of that, they were closer to him than other people. Plus the "they would be angry at Fury and feel betrayed" thing.

Probably the war is just Hydra trying to shut down any resistance / potential enemy from what was left of S.H.I.E.L.D.