Intelligence and Strategy Selected Essays

• Main Author: Ferris, John
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2005; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group; Frank Cass
• Edition: 1
• Series: Studies in Intelligence
• Subjects: Case studies; Intelligence; Intelligence Studies; Military & Strategic Studies; Military history, Modern; Military intelligence; Security Studies - Pol & Intl Relns; Strategy; Military Genius; XIII Corps; GHQ Middle East; TA Rt; Signals Intelligence; Vice Versa; Central ASIA; Operational Traffic; Clausewitz’s Sense; C3 System; Course Of Action; COA; Eighth Army; Typex Machines; Signals Security; Chief Diplomatic Advisor; Afrika Korps; XXX Corps; Cipher Machines; Radio Traffic; Infantry Divisions; Hollerith Machines; Intelligence Services; Cipher Security; Zealand Division
• ISBN: 0415361958; 041536194X; 9780415361958; 9780415361941
• DOI: 10.4324/9780203963913

John Ferris' work in strategic and intelligence history is widely praised for its originality and the breadth of its research. At last his major pioneering articles 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 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 1930s and the Second World War. Finally he traces the roots for contemporary intelligence, and analyzes intelligence and the RMA as well as the role of intelligence in the 2003 Gulf War. This volume ultimately brings new light to our understanding of the relations between intelligence, strategy and diplomacy between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 21st century. John Ferris is a Professor of History at The University of Calgary. He has written widely on military history, strategy and intelligence studies. Among his works are The Evolution of British Strategic Policy, 1919-1926 (1989) and The British Army and Signals Intelligence during the First World War. He is a co-author of A World History of Warfare (2002). 1. Lord Salisbury, Secret Intelligence and British Policy Toward Russia and Central Asia, 1874-1878 2. 'Indulged in all Too Little'?: Vansittart, Intelligence and Appeasement 3. Image and Accident: Intelligence and the Origins of the Second World War, 1933-1941 4. The British 'Enigma': Britain, Signals Security and Cipher Machines, 1906-1953 5. The British Army, Signals and Security in the Desert Campaign, 1940-42 6. Clausewitz, Intelligence, Uncertainty and the Art of Command in Modern War (with Michael Handel) 7. NCW, C4ISR, IO and RMA: Towards a Revolution in Military Intelligence?