Empires of Intelligence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empires of Intelligence write by Martin Thomas. This book was released on 2007-10-09. Empires of Intelligence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How did Great Britain and France, the largest imperial powers of the early twentieth century, cope with mounting anticolonial nationalism in the Arab world? What linked domestic opponents and foreign challengers in the Middle East and North Africa—Syria, Palestine, Transjordan, Iraq, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and Egypt—as inhabitants attempted to overthrow the European colonial order? What strategies did the British and French adopt in the face of these threats? Empires of Intelligence, the first study of colonial intelligence services to use recently declassified reports, argues that colonial control in the British and French empires depended on an elaborate security apparatus. Martin Thomas shows for the first time the crucial role of intelligence gathering in maintaining imperial control in the years before decolonization.
Imperial Secrets: Remapping the Mind of Empire
Imperial Secrets: Remapping the Mind of Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imperial Secrets: Remapping the Mind of Empire write by Patrick A. Kelley. This book was released on 2011-09-16. Imperial Secrets: Remapping the Mind of Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Major Kelley chooses three empires with which to compare our current intelligence circumstances. Each of these faced challenges in understanding peoples; Rome in the first and second centuries AD, the Ottomans in the 16th to 18th, and Britain in India in the 18th to early 20th. Kelley feels these warrant study in light of our need to deal with peoples whom we may seek to influence. The author also asks: ?If power shapes knowledge, does knowledge also shape power This is a delightful exercise in erudition in which key postmodern insights and reasoning are used to gain political understanding. Full of surprises and insights, Kelley takes his readers through an enchanted forest peopled by Foucalt, T.E. Lawrence, J.S. Bach, Borges, Idries Shah, Hobsbawm, Jung, Baudrillard, and many more. One hopes our educated, certified, and degreed military and intelligence leadership can penetrate a work this rich, deep, and ultimately useful. (Originally published in color by the NDIC Press)
Empire and Information
Empire and Information - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empire and Information write by Christopher Alan Bayly. This book was released on 1996. Empire and Information available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In a penetrating account of the evolution of British intelligence gathering in India, C. A. Bayly shows how networks of Indian spies were recruited by the British to secure military, political and social information about their subjects. He also examines the social and intellectual origins of these 'native informants', and considers how the colonial authorities interpreted and often misinterpreted the information they supplied. It was such misunderstandings which ultimately contributed to the failure of the British to anticipate the rebellions of 1857. The author argues, however, that even before this, complex systems of debate and communication were challenging the political and intellectual dominance of the European rulers.
Imperial Secrets
Imperial Secrets - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imperial Secrets write by Patrick A. Kelley. This book was released on 2008. Imperial Secrets available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Patrick Kelley explores the limits of institutional knowledge regarding information gathering and knowledge in imperial political structures. The author 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 as a tool of governance and domination.
The Armies of Ignorance
The Armies of Ignorance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Armies of Ignorance write by William R. Corson. This book was released on 1977. The Armies of Ignorance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The closing months of 1977 saw the beginning of the most important debate on the functions and future of American intelligence since the original National Security Act of 1947 signaled the rise of what has become an intelligence empire. The Senate Intelligence hearings, the Watergate revelations, and the daily barrage of leaks and exposés about "mind control" and mail-opening programs were merely a prelude to the struggle to reorganize and control the bweildering proliferation of agencies, activities, and responsibilities that make up the vital intelligence shield of this country. The Armies of Ignorance is one of the most authoratative and important contributions to understanding what has gone on in the sprawling intelligence community and what must be done to ensure this country's real "national security." Part of the task is historical -- this book examines the entire history of American espionage from the Revolution to the present. The more important and more difficult task is that of relating how the intelligence establishment has really functioned since the early days of the Second World War and how its unwritten law compares with Congressional mandates, executive orders, and the U.S. Constitution..."--Book jacket.
