Intelligence and strategy : selected essays / John Robert Ferris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ferris, John Robert, 1956-

Series:

Cass series--studies in intelligence

Studies in intelligence series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military intelligence--Case studies.

Military intelligence.

Strategy--Case studies.

Strategy.

Military history, Modern--19th century.

Military history, Modern.

Military history, Modern--20th century.

Military history, Modern--21st century.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

vii, 395 pages : maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.

Summary:

John Ferris's work in strategic and intelligence history has been widely praised for its originality and the breadth of its research. At last, several of his major pioneering articles whose publications were scattered across time and venues are now available in this one single volume. In Intelligence and Strategy these essential articles have been fundamentally revised to incorporate new evidence and information that were withheld by governments when they were first published. This volume reshapes the study of communications intelligence by tracing Britain's development of cipher machines providing the context to Ultra and Enigma, and by explaining how British and German signals intelligence shaped the desert war. The author also explains how intelligence affected British strategy and diplomacy from 1874 to 1940 and world diplomacy during the 1980s and the Second World War. Finally he traces the roots of contemporary intelligence, and analyzes intelligence and the Revolution in Military Affairs as well as the role of intelligence in the 2003 Gulf War.

This volume brings new light to our understanding of the relations between intelligence, strategy and diplomacy between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Contents:

1 Lord Salisbury, secret intelligence and British policy toward Russia and Central Asia, 1874-1878 8

2 "Indulged in all too little"? Vansittart, intelligence and appeasement 45

3 Image and accident: intelligence and the origins of the Second World War, 1933-1941 99

4 The British "Enigma": Britain, signals security and cipher machines, 1906-1953 138

5 The British army: signals and security in the desert campaign, 1940-1942 181

6 Intelligence, uncertainty and the art of command in military operations 239

7 NCW, C[superscript 4]ISR, IO and RMA: toward a revolution in military intelligence? 288.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 328-386) and index.

ISBN:

041536194X

0415361958

OCLC:

56880084