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Go Spy the Land: Military Intelligence in History

Editat de Keith Neilson, B.J.C. Mckercher
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 oct 1992 – vârsta până la 17 ani
For too long military history has ignored the role of intelligence. As a result, many people do not realize that military intelligence has played a significant role in history. However, intelligence gathering, evaluation, and analysis has always been part of war. Lack of knowledge of how intelligence has been utilized in wars makes for an incomplete and inaccurate picture of historical events. While many are aware of such things as the Allied code-breaking efforts in World War II, few know that similar activities were undertaken as early as the beginning of recorded history. By examining a number of case studies from Roman times to the present, Go Spy the Land reveals the essential continuity in military intelligence, the fact that many of the problems involved in military intelligence have remained constant, and the nature of the problems themselves.According to the authors, military intelligence has always been an important aspect of military planning and campaigns. Furthermore, military intelligence in its essentials has not changed over time: while technology and society have affected the ways in which this essential activity has been carried out, the problems inherent in the task have remained constant. The latter conclusion is something not generally appreciated in the intelligence field, which has been dominated by historians studying the twentieth century. This collection not only provides important case studies, but also shows that much of what is claimed as exclusively a product of the twentieth century has its roots as far back in time as the Roman Empire.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780275937089
ISBN-10: 0275937089
Pagini: 222
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Praeger
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Notă biografică

Keith Neilson is Professor of History at the Royal Military College of Canada. He is the author of Strategy and Supply: Anglo-Russian Relations, 1914-1917 and recently edited, with Ronald G. Haycock, The Cold War and Defense (Praeger, 1990). He has also published a wide range of articles on British diplomatic and military history.B.J.C. McKercher is Associate Professor of History at the Royal Military College of Canada. He is the author of The Second Baldwin Givernment and the United States, 1924-1929 and Esme Howard: A Diplomatic Biography. He recently edited with Jane Errington, The Vietnam War as History (Praeger, 1990).

Cuprins

IntroductionThe Nature of Military Intelligence by Christopher AndrewRoman Military Intelligence by Arther FerrillIntelligence in the Hundred Years War by Christopher AllmandThe Worst-Kept Secret in Europe: The European Intelligence Community and the Spanish Armada of 1588 by Geoffrey ParkerDiplomatic Cryptology and Universal Languages in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by Gerhard F. StrasserMilitary Intelligence Gathering in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century, 1740-1792 by Gunther RothenbergLord Salisbury, Secret Intelligence, and British Policy toward Russia and Central Asia, 1874-1878 by John FerrisSecurity Intelligence in Canada, 1864-1945: The History of a "National Insecurity State" by Wesley K. WarkIntelligence in Historical Perspective by Michael HandelBibliographyIndex