HST 540 Lecture 1: Week 1 and 2
24 Feb 2015
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Popular fiction becomes public fiction: most intelligence agencies are reactive ie. most respond to events and threats, seldom anticipate. Obiligation is to think about immediacy of threats, agencies tend to think narrowly and straight forwardly about threats, threat perception. Technology change = huge implication on intelligence, challenges society. Important to note that intelligence agenices =/= seperate governments. They do not work secretly against things, society. They simply mirror society (in democratic societies, that is) Born in napoleonic war, modern nationalism born. Rudamentary concepts of what it means to be a nation are development. Language is unifying, becomes problematic later in history. Canada born as a nation in 1867. America not truly nation until after civil war, 1865. Espionage/spying is a phenomena of the 20th century. Intelligence = information (universally) but not all information is intelligence. Majority of intelligence is open source (okay if everyone knows, available to those with access), other is closed source (about 60/40)
