ABSTRACT
Over 3000 years ago, Pharaoh Amenhotep III of Egypt boasted of his ability to collect information about the Babylonian army.1 Over 2000 years ago, Chinese strategic thinker Sun Tzu proposed methods for integrating intelligence operations into the rest of strategy, adding that a commander who neglects such matters ‘is no general’ and that a ruler who tolerates such an incompetent is ‘no master of victory’.2 Nevertheless, by the nineteenth century, what former CIA director Allen Dulles called the craft of intelligence had become a lost art. Strategic thinkers have only begun the process of reinventing it.
