| Intelligence, Information and Cyber operations have increasingly occupied the national consciousness, although the academic study of intelligence itself was founded as a field in the latter stages of the Cold War. While secret intelligence operations can be traced to ancient times, this course will trace the modern role of intelligence bureaucracies from the early 20th century and examine the role of intelligence, cyber and information operations as the missing dimension of the history of international affairs, with a special emphasis on intelligence in war. Specifically, this course surveys the birth and evolution of Western Intelligence communities from the early 1900s through the beginning of the 21st century. Ethical, diplomatic, military and cultural dimensions of intelligence collection and counterintelligence in democracies will also be considered in a course that seeks to understand contemporary events with historical perspective. |