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Book SynopsisStrategic Intelligence is a form of meaning that promises the possibility of strategic advantage, dignity, the achievement of objective, and the fulfillment of potential in hostile environments. In The Cultural Roots of Strategic Intelligence Gino LaPaglia demonstrates that the strategic aspect of reasonarising in human experience, encoded as value, and born by culture as a strategic resourcehas been encoded as values that have been memorialized in culturally authoritative sources in various Eurasian cultures for thousands of years. These sources have validated a strategic orientation in the world, legitimized the strategist as a heroic identity, and transmitted a coherent world view that enables the practitioner of strategy to overcome asymmetric threat. By excavating the provenance of strategic thought expressed in the cultural identity of the strategist in the most culturally authoritative mythological, literary, philosophical and religious sources, and excavating the underlying str
Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Translation, Conventions, Abbreviations 1 Cultural Genealogy: Theory and Method 2 Greco-Roman Strategic Intelligence: Strategic Heroes, Gods and Men 3 Greco-Roman Strategic Intelligence: Beasts and Philosophers 4 The Legacy of Judeo-Christian Strategic Intelligence 5 The Patrimony of Medieval & Renaissance Strategic Intelligence 6 Toward a Cultural Genealogy of Chinese Strategic Intelligence 7 The Endowment of Chinese Strategic Intelligence: Strategic Officialdom 8 Thick Black Theory 厚黑學: Annotated Translation Conclusion Bibliography Index
