Chapter 1. The Historian and the Security Guy

 

The need for a common knowledge of the general facts of human history throughout the world has become very evident during the tragic happenings of the last few years. Swifter means of communications have brought all men closer to one another for good or for evil.

 
 --H. G. Wells, The Outline of History (1920)

Through The Outline of History, H. G. Wells created a different way of looking at world events through the relatively new lenses of evolution, sociology, and anthropology; and it is from his approach to history that I have taken my cues in penning Mapping Security. In this first part, “Charting a Course,” I first establish the foundation for the part’s structure and navigation (Chapter 2), and ...

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