| ID | 079221 |
| Title Proper | Interpreting national security and intelligence in geographic exploration |
| Other Title Information | explorers and geographers in America's early republic |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Medlicott, Carol |
| Publication | 2007. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | 'Intelligence' connotes the collection of information in furtherance of policy and strategic security objectives. Intelligence practitioners tend to look primarily to the histories of battlefield reconnaissance and court intrigue for their profession's discursive precedents. For the Western state, the mastery of territory has also been an important security objective since the Age of Exploration. Specifically, in the American case, territorial expansion and the subduing of new territory long lay at the heart of America's viability as a state. Thus, the intelligence field ought also to recognize geographical exploration as deeply implicated in Western national security discourse and as sharing an epistemological similarity with intelligence gathering. Both intelligence gathering and geographical exploration rely upon 'Humint', that is, informants penetrating distant and hidden places and reporting on the features found therein. America's early Republic period offers key examples of this fundamental similarity |
| `In' analytical Note | Intelligence and National Security Vol. 22, No.3; Jun 2007: p321-345 |
| Journal Source | Intelligence and National Security Vol. 22, No.3; Jun 2007: p321-345 |
| Key Words | National Security ; United states ; Intelligence |