Wartime state intelligence work drew directly on academic Orientalists

Evidence

I was initially assigned to the Royal Armoured Corps, but soon, either because of my aptitude for languages or my ineptitude with tanks, I was transferred to Intelligence. From there, in 1941– 1945, I was attached to a department of the Foreign Office dealing with Middle Eastern matters. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 76

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Wartime intelligence work gave Orientalists specialized modern regional knowledge — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 77; The Second World War transformed academic Orientalism in Britain — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists…, 426; Orientalist knowledge became enlisted in Cold War counterinsurgency and national-security manipulation (+6 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Wartime intelligence work gave Orientalists specialized modern regional knowledge — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 77; The Second World War transformed academic Orientalism in Britain — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists…, 426; Orientalist knowledge became enlisted in Cold War counterinsurgency and national-security manipulation (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Academic Orientalist expertise legitimizes rather than corrects crude stereotypes #complicates (0.71)