Imperial Secrets: Remapping the Mind of Empire - Hardcover

Imperial Secrets; Remapping the Mind of Empire

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. Presumed First Edition, First printing. xvi, 231, [1] pages. Footnotes. Illustrations (most in color). Bibliography. Index. Book is new, removed from shrinkwrap for cataloguing. The author held the rank of Major when this was published. He was a Foreign Area Officer specializing in South Asia. Following completion of a research fellowship which produced this book, he was assigned as the Chief, Office of Defense Cooperation, at the U.S. Embassy in Kathmandu, Nepal. In this work, the author, Patrick Kelley, interprets the intelligence environment of political, military and information empires. His contribution sheds light on the cause of enduring intelligence collection deficits that afflict the center of such empires, and that can coincide with their ebb and flow. Intelligence practitioners, present and future, can note here just how useful a fresh interpretation of the intelligence enterprise can be to an understanding of the global stream of worrisome issues. The long-term value of this work will be realized as readers entertain the implications of Churchill's comment that "The empires of the future are the empires of the mind." Kelley explores the limits of institutional knowledge regarding information gathering in imperial political structures. He explores how an empire's culture can shape the information it receives and its ability to process information. The book ranges across time to examine the achievements and failures of empires to use information for governance and domination. Artikel-Nr. 76970

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