The Intelligence Revolution and Modern Warfare
Edited by James E. Dillard and Walter T. Hitchcock
1995; xiv+202 pp.; index
Paper ISBN 1-879176-22-X $29.95
Military History Symposium Series of the USAF Academy, Vol. 3
Chicago: Imprint Publications
Today a statesman's day often begins and ends with the reading of top-secret intelligence reports. The intelligence profession, which came of age during World War II, has become complex and costly, supplementing its conventional sourcesCpress reports, agent activities, foreign radio broadcasts, defector interviews, reports of diplomatic and military attachesCwith a vast array of technical data gathered from photographic imagery and electronic signals. Indeed, the range of the coverage and the bulk of the data collected and analyzed have revolutionized intelligence warfare in modern times. The "game of intelligence" will never be the same. This volume contends that an historical assessment of the role intelligence has played in modern warfare is necessary for us to understand completely many of the pivotal events and key personalities that shaped our century. These essays portray how modern intelligence agenciesCespecially in the United StatesCrevolutionized the craft of intelligence. Intelligence operations have been and remain an innate part of war and the preparations for war. Certainly the nature of modern warfare, particularly since World War II, makes intelligence more than ever an integral part of making war and providing for national security. This book's unique contribution to the history of intelligence is its cogent analysis of how American, Japanese, German, British, and Soviet intelligence organizations have operated in war and peace, in space, in the air, on land, and at sea.
Contents
Dennis E. ShowalterCIntelligence on the Eve of Transformation: Methodology, Organization, and Application; Peter MaslowskiCMilitary Intelligence Sources during the American Civil War; Jurgen RohwerCRadio Intelligence in the Battle of the Atlantic; Christopher AndrewCThe Making of the Anglo-American SIGNIT Alliance, 1940B1948; Timothy J. NaftaliCThe Rise and Fall of the Allied Counterintelligence Triangle in World War II; Alvin D. CooxCJapanese Military Intelligence in the Pacific Theater: Its Nonrevolutionary Nature; Hisashi TakahashiCJapanese Intelligence Estimates of China and the Chinese, 1931-1945; John Lewis GaddisCThe Impact of the Intelligence Revolution on Postwar Diplomacy; Robert Frank FutrellCUSAF Intelligence in the Korean War; William E. BurrowsCSatellite Reconnaissance
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