The intelligence life cycle begins when decision-makers identify information they need to know, and the intelligence community attempts to collect the data relevant to the question and provide its best analysis of what that data forecasts. […]
When the Congress reviewed the situation after 9/11, they didn’t like what they saw. The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 established the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). The resulting structure is more or less a federation intended to maximize the effectiveness of intelligence collection and dissemination among 17 member agencies while maintaining independence of action among each. […]
The society of ‘Righteous and Harmonious Fists’, called ‘Boxers’ for short, was a secret society. They loathed all foreigners and, in collaboration with Cixi’s imperial officers, sieged all foreign legations in Beijing. However, an international military force was able to rescue the besieged inhabitants and put an end to the Boxer uprising. […]
Based on the reform proposals by Kang Youwei, emperor Guangxu issued imperial edicts and began the Hundred Days of Reform. However, these reforms were opposed by dowager empress Cixi and ultra-conservative court officials, and they organised a palace coup and took back the power. Many secret societies also emerged during this time period. […]
After the failure of the Self-Strengthening Movement, a bold new reform movement began with the aim to overhaul China’s economic and political institutions. Groups of reformers converged to initiate a lobbying campaign in an effort to gain high level imperial support for fundamental social change. […]
The plague left a devastating effect on the city of Florence. However, once the first wave was over, the city fathers or leaders tried to restore order to the city and prevent it from falling into anarchy. […]
As the bubonic plague swept through the city of Florence in the 14th century, many people fell victim to the disease and died. Many survivors, on the other hand, fled the city to rural areas to escape the disease. […]
The 1300s saw one of the worst pandemics in the human history. The bubonic plague, also known as the Black Death, made its way into the Italian Peninsula and laid waste to one of the most advanced community of medieval times. […]
In the Southeast, increased social and economic interactions with colonists made it increasingly difficult for Native people to control the rate and shape of change. Their search for common ground was challenged even more by the spread of diseases, the expansion of slavery, and the onset of war. […]
What was it that held this nonstate world of the villages in Ohio Country together? Well, for one thing, they shared a common space, many of them due to the shared experience of being forced from their own homelands into a new area. And because of that, many of them also frequently shared a common enemy—the Iroquois. […]
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