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Ethiopia’s Intelligence: Built to Guard the State, Not the People Intelligence is one of those words that changes meaning depending on where you stand. Psychologists use it to describe human learning and reasoning. Philosophers debate whether it is one power or many. Computer scientists design algorithms and call them “ artificial intelligence .” But in politics, the military, and statecraft , intelligence has nothing to do with IQ or clever machines. It means something colder: the collection and use of information to protect the state and its rulers. A politician without intelligence is blind; a mediocre leader with it often looks like a genius. A Global History of Secrets Empires across the world perfected intelligence long before modern nation-states. Rome ran the frumentarii , grain officers who doubled as imperial spies. They reported on generals, governors, and anyone who might turn restless. The Ottomans employed court eavesdroppers , the “ nightingale’s eye ,” t...