Imperial Secrets

In this work, Patrick Kelley interprets the intelligence environment of
political, military and information empires. His contribution sheds light on
the cause of enduring intelligence collection defi cits that affl ict the center of
such empires, and that can coincide with their ebb and fl ow. Alert intelligence
practitioners, present and future, can note here just how useful a fresh interpretation of the intelligence enterprise can be to a coherent understanding of
the global stream of worrisome issues. Th e long-term value of this work will
be realized as readers entertain the implications of Churchill's comment that
"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."