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A history of Swedish interception of radio and telegraph messages during World Wars I and II providing a valuable background to Swedish military operations at this time.
This book traces the history of Australia's highly secret Intelligence Security Organisation, which has been the subject of two Royal Commissions and in recent times several acts of Parliament have been passed to make it more accountable.
Offers an examination of the various stages in the evolution of South Africa's intelligence organizations and structures. This book covers: the apartheid period of 1960-90; the transition from apartheid to democracy of 1990-94; and, the post-apartheid period of intelligence dispensation from 1994-2005.
This book examines the questions and perennial themes that run through British overseas policy since 1945, drawing on new research by leading historians and scholars in the field.
This volume argues for intelligence professionalism as a contribution to international security and for its encouragement as a world standard.
Examines the use and exploitation of intelligence in formulating Britain's strategy for the Arab Revolt during the First World War. This title presents an examination of the achievements of T E Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) as an intelligence officer and guerrilla leader.
Drawing on extensive foreign material and making use of the social science concepts of information, power and law, this book develops a framework for the comparative analysis of MI5 and police special branches.
This book explores the intriguing success of left-wing amateur intelligence workers who were recruited to the Soviet intelligence services from the United States, Britain, Europe, Australia and Canada from the 1930's to the 1950's.
Shortly after it was founded in 1947, the CIA launched a secret effort to win the Cold War allegiance of the British left. This title traces the story of this campaign from its origins in Washington DC to its impact on Labour Party politicians, trade unionists, and Bloomsbury intellectuals.
These essays investigate the logic, conduct and nature of war on the highest political and strategic levels,as they look at the impact of technology on warfare, the political nature of war and the limits of rational analysis in studying war.
This book examines the structural development of the Secret Intelligence Service from its inception to the end of the Cold War.
These essays cover: assessment systems now in place in Britain, the USA, Germany and Australia; the bureaucratic dynamics of analysis; the changes in intelligence; and the impact of new technologies on intelligence.
This book examines how key developments in international relations in recent years have affected intelligence agencies and their oversight.
This is a study of the murky, ultra-sensitive business of gathering intelligence among, and forming estimates about, friendly powers, and friendly or allied military forces.
This volume examines the ethical issues generated by recent developments in intelligence collection and offers a.comprehenisve analysis of the key legal, moral and social questions thereby raised.
This edited volume addresses the main lessons and legacies of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
This edited volume offers a comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of interrogation and questioning in war and conflict in the twentieth century.
This edited volume addresses the main lessons and legacies of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
A radical new approach to the study of propaganda and foreign policy, which moves beyond state-dominated, 'top-down' studies by exploring the engagement and mobilization of whole societies and cultures.
The vital ingredient in the formulation and execution of a successful foreign policy is intelligence. Of the seven contributors, five have direct experience of working with or in intelligence, and all have written extensively on the subject.
This book is a collection of essays on Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE), exploring the 'non-military' aspects of British 'special operations' over the course of the Second World War.
This book examines critically the development of intelligence studies and assesses its contribution to the study of international relations. It draws upon the viewpoints of leading academics, journalists and former practitioners to explore the way
Intelligence and the Cuban Missile Crisis examines for the first time the role and performance of all three intelligence communities centrally involved in this seminal event: American, Soviet and Cuban.
This volume studies the manner in which political leaders accept and apply intelligence.
The articles in this volume demonstrate that the codebreaking war was a truly global conflict in which many countries were active and successful.
Explores what lessons for the exploitation and management of secret intelligence might be drawn from a variety of case studies. This collection of essays addresses a range of themes including: crisis management, covert diplomacy, intelligence tradecraft, counterterrorism, intelligence 'overload', and intelligence in relation to neutral states.
Reinhard R Doerries has written the first scholarly appraisal of SS-Brigadefuhrer Walter Schellenberg as a Nazi leader and Hitler's final head of foreign intelligence.
This work reveals the role of intercepting messages during the Cold War.
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