The two forms of intelligence failure in the Anglosphere

Without question, the Anglosphere confronts an intelligence crisis as it is drawn further into economic decline, manufacturing irrelevance and financial stress. This is not to mention its growing and happy dependence of the Confucian strategists of East and South East Asia.

Attention to this failure of intelligence does not require more draconian authority for "intelligence agencies". Rather it demands a rare form of intellectual integrity and rigor in re-evaluating and re-formulating a whole culture of economic orthodoxy that has been fundamentally designed to serve and legitimise British and American imperial activity but that is functioning disastrously and being transparently exploited in the contemporary global economy.

In reality, the Anglosphere has failed to prepare and educate several generations for the competitive global marketplace that it has created. It has allowed its workforce to become accustomed to levels of consumption that it can no longer service from its own efforts. As a consequence it has allowed itself to become heavily indebted to what were once backward, but today are highly educated and hard-working, economies, predominantly in East and South East Asia.

Even worse, the Anglosphere has indulged a leadership class that is not adequately educated to strategize in a competitive global marketplace. This class continues to rehearse ideas that once served British and American imperial interests but that have long since been rendered self-destructive by the Confucian administrators and strategists of Asia.

Initially, the Anglosphere's leaders spoke dismissively, with just a hint of concern, about Japan Incorporated and now they talk with a type a principled but helpless hostility about China's State Owned Enterprises (SOEs). They are forever in denial that Confucian Asia marshals its corporations strategically to serve the broader community. There are, of course, variations on this theme but it is possibly the most fundamental quality that has transformed the global community over the past half century.

This central and fundamental role of strategic administrators, qualified by rigorous education and traditional values, cannot however by articulated iAnglosphere because it would undermine and discredit several centuries of economic doctrine and dogma. Moreover, it would expose the self-serving character of much Anglosphere principal and rhetoric. Even more important, it would leave various powerful and central professional groups without the credentials and authority necessary to maintain their personal and family wealth and social standing.

The preservation of Anglosphere doctrines and dogmas now comes at a higher cost with each year, evident in the failure of Anglosphere intelligence and the steady strategic marginalization of previously advanced societies.