The Tao of Spycraft: Intelligence Theory and Practice in Traditional China

Abstract

Early History * Early Records and the First Spies * The Spring and Autumn Period * The Warring States Period Spycraft * Fundamental Thrust * Nature and Theory of Agents * Operations and Control * Secrecy and Countermeasures Covert Activities * Systematic Programs and Psychological Warfare * Assassination and Other Techniques Theories Of Evaluating And Intelligence * Basic Theory and Issues * Knowing Men * Character, Archetypes, and Typology * Intelligence Applications * Political Intelligence Military Intelligence * Field Intelligence * Classifications of Terrain Prognostication, Divination, And Nonhuman Factors * Historical Practices and Their Rejection