Studies in Intelligence
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Britain's Secret War against Japan, 1937-1945
Series: Studies in Intelligence
A new look at how Britain’s defence establishment learned to engage Japan’s armed forces as the Pacific War progressed. Douglas Ford reveals that, prior to Japan’s invasion of Southeast Asia in December 1941, the British held a contemptuous view of Japanese military...
Published November 15th 2011 by Routledge
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Intelligence, Command and Military Operations
The Eighth Army Campaign in Italy, 1943-45
Series: Studies in Intelligence
This new book explores the relationship between intelligence and command at the operational level of war, and the extent to which it nourished operational performance on the battlefield. It does so through the medium of a fresh case study of the British Eighth Army’s performance, under three...
To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge
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Improving Intelligence Analysis
Bridging the Gap between Scholarship and Practice
Series: Studies in Intelligence
This book on intelligence analysis written by intelligence expert Dr. Stephen Marrin argues that scholarship can play a valuable role in improving intelligence analysis. Improving intelligence analysis requires bridging the gap between scholarship and practice. Compared to the more...
Published June 19th 2011 by Routledge
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Russia and the Cult of State Security
The Chekist Tradition, From Lenin to Putin
Series: Studies in Intelligence
This book explores the mythology woven around the Soviet secret police and the Russian cult of state security that has emerged from it. Tracing the history of this mythology from the Soviet period through to its revival in contemporary post-Soviet Russia, the volume argues that successive Russian...
Published June 15th 2011 by Routledge
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International Intelligence Cooperation and Accountability
Series: Studies in Intelligence
This book examines how international intelligence cooperation has come to prominence post-9/11 and introduces the main accountability, legal and human rights challenges that it poses. Since the end of the Cold War, the threats that intelligence services are tasked with confronting have become...
Published January 6th 2011 by Routledge
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The South African Intelligence Services
From Apartheid to Democracy, 1948-2005
Series: Studies in Intelligence
This book is the first full history of South African intelligence and provides a detailed examination of the various stages in the evolution of South Africa’s intelligence organizations and structures. Covering the apartheid period of 1948-90, the transition from apartheid to democracy of 1990-94,...
Published October 7th 2010 by Routledge
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The Egyptian Intelligence Service
A History of the Mukhabarat, 1910-2009
Series: Studies in Intelligence
This book analyzes how the Egyptian intelligence community has adapted to shifting national security threats since its inception 100 years ago. Starting in 1910, when the modern Egyptian intelligence system was created to deal with militant nationalists and Islamists, the book...
Published January 31st 2010 by Routledge
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Intelligence Cooperation and the War on Terror
Anglo-American Security Relations after 9/11
Series: Studies in Intelligence
This book provides an in-depth analysis of UK-US intelligence cooperation in the post-9/11 world. Seeking to connect an analysis of intelligence liaison with the wider realm of Anglo-American Relations, the book draws on a wide range of interviews and consultations with key actors in both countries...
Published October 14th 2009 by Routledge
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East German Foreign Intelligence
Myth, Reality and Controversy
Series: Studies in Intelligence
This edited book examines the East German foreign intelligence service (Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung, or HVA) as a historical problem, covering politics, scientific-technical and military intelligence and counterintelligence. The contributors broaden the conventional view of East German...
Published July 21st 2009 by Routledge
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Intelligence Theory
Key Questions and Debates
Series: Studies in Intelligence
This edited volume brings together a range of essays by individuals who are centrally involved in the debate about the role and utility of theory in intelligence studies. The volume includes both classic essays and new articles that critically analyse some key issues: strategic intelligence, the...
Published August 11th 2008 by Routledge
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US National Security, Intelligence and Democracy
From the Church Committee to the War on Terror
Series: Studies in Intelligence
This volume examines the investigation by the 1975 Senate Select Committee (‘Church Committee’) into US intelligence abuses during the Cold War, and considers its lessons for the current ‘war on terror’. This report remains the most thorough public record of America’s intelligence services, and...
Published June 30th 2008 by Routledge
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Exploring Intelligence Archives
Enquiries into the Secret State
Series: Studies in Intelligence
This edited volume brings together many of the world’s leading scholars of intelligence with a number of former senior practitioners to facilitate a wide-ranging dialogue on the central challenges confronting students of intelligence. The book presents a series of documents, nearly all of which...
Published March 18th 2008 by Routledge
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Military Intelligence and the Arab Revolt
The First Modern Intelligence War
Series: Studies in Intelligence
Military Intelligence and the Arab Revolt examines the use and exploitation of intelligence in formulating Britain’s strategy for the Arab Revolt during the First World War. It also presents a radical re-examination of the achievements of T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) as an intelligence...
Published October 3rd 2007 by Routledge
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US Covert Operations and Cold War Strategy
Truman, Secret Warfare and the CIA, 1945-53
Series: Studies in Intelligence
Based on recently declassified documents, this book provides the first examination of the Truman Administration’s decision to employ covert operations in the Cold War. Although covert operations were an integral part of America’s arsenal during the late 1940s and early 1950s, the majority of these...
Published September 5th 2007 by Routledge
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Stasi
Shield and Sword of the Party
Series: Studies in Intelligence
This book is a fascinating new examination of one of the most feared and efficient secret services the world has ever known, the Stasi. The East German Stasi was a jewel among the communist secret services, the most trusted by its Russian mother organization the KGB, and even more efficient....
Published August 29th 2007 by Routledge
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Intelligence, Crises and Security
Prospects and Retrospects
Series: Studies in Intelligence
This collection of essays by leading experts seeks to explore what lessons for the exploitation and management of secret intelligence might be drawn from a variety of case studies ranging from the 1920s to the ‘War on Terror’. Long regarded as the ‘missing dimension’ of international history and...
Published August 8th 2007 by Routledge
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The Politics and Strategy of Clandestine War
Special Operations Executive, 1940-1946
Series: Studies in Intelligence
This fascinating new collection of essays on Britain’s Special Operations Executive (SOE) explores the ‘non-military’ aspects of British special operations in the Second World War. It details how SOE was established in the summer of 1940 to ‘set Europe ablaze’, as Churchill memorably put it. This...
Published September 27th 2006 by Routledge
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Peacekeeping Intelligence
New Players, Extended Boundaries
Series: Studies in Intelligence
This is a new evaluation of the role, dynamics and challenges of intelligence in peacekeeping activities and its place in a much wider social, economic and political context. It assesses the role of coalition forces, law enforcement agencies, development institutions, and non-governmental...
Published April 26th 2006 by Routledge
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The US Government, Citizen Groups and the Cold War
The State-Private Network
Series: Studies in Intelligence
This new book examines the construction, activities and impact of the network of US state and private groups in the Cold War. By moving beyond state-dominated, ‘top-down’ interpretations of international relations and exploring instead the engagement and mobilization of whole societies and...
Published March 8th 2006 by Routledge
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Mussolini's Propaganda Abroad
Subversion in the Mediterranean and the Middle East, 1935-1940
Series: Studies in Intelligence
This is the first major study in English of Fascist Italy’s overseas propaganda. Using rare Italian and French captured documents, this is also the first investigation into the relationship between Mussolini’s regime and Arab nationalist movements This new account covers propaganda and subversive...
Published February 22nd 2006 by Routledge
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Special Operations Executive
A New Instrument of War
Series: Studies in Intelligence
This unique book presents an accurate and reliable assessment of the Special Operations Executive (SOE). It brings together leading authors to examine the organization from a range of key angles. This study shows how historians have built on the first international conference on the SOE at the...
Published November 30th 2005 by Routledge
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Our Man in Yugoslavia
The Story of a Secret Service Operative
Series: Studies in Intelligence
As a fully documented study of a Second World War Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) operative, Our Man in Yugoslavia is absolutely unique. Its subject is Owen Reed, an army officer recruited into SIS in the summer of 1943 and then parachuted in to German-occupied Croatia to work with Tito's...
Published June 30th 2005 by Routledge
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Intelligence and Strategy
Selected Essays
Series: Studies in Intelligence
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...
Published June 22nd 2005 by Routledge