Author(s): Lars BAERENTZEN
Publication name: Romanian Intelligence Studies Review
Publisher name: Mihai Viteazul National Intelligence Academy
Publication type: Journal article
Publication date: June 30, 2019
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Issue/ Volume: 21/2019
DOI:
Abstract
Using historical events as training material is, I think, more illuminating than
using constructed scenarios because history often includes elements that the author of a
scenario must reject as being impossible or too unlikely. However, as a tool for
understanding current affairs both for the politician and for the intelligence analyst,
history has a right use and a wrong use. Therefore so many people believe “that the only
thing one can learn from history is that one cannot learn anything from history”? In this
respect I will try to answer the following question: How useful is historical knowledge
and training as an historian for an intelligence analyst?
Keywords: history, intelligence, education, useful tool for teaching.
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