Studies in Intelligence
About the Book Series
The growing interest in intelligence activities and the opening of hitherto closed archives since the end of the Cold War has stimulated this series of scholarly monographs, wartime memoirs and edited collections. With contributions from leading academics and prominent members of the intelligence community, this series has quickly become the leading forum for the academic study of intelligence.
Intelligence Analysis and Assessment
1st Edition
Edited
By David Charters, Stuart Farson, Glenn P. Hastedt
June 30, 1996
These essays cover: assessment systems now in place in Britain, the USA, Germany and Australia; the bureaucratic dynamics of analysis and assessment; the changing ground in intelligence; and the impact of new technologies and modes of communication on intelligence gathering and analysis....
Intelligence and Imperial Defence: British Intelligence and the Defence of the Indian Empire 1904-1924
1st Edition
By Richard James Popplewell, Richard J. Popplewell
August 01, 1995
This is the first book to appear on British intelligence operations based in both India and London, which defended the Indian Empire against subversion during the first two decades of the twentieth century. It is concerned with the threat to the British Raj posed by the Indian revolutionary ...
Tet 1968: Understanding the Surprise
1st Edition
By Captain Ronnie E. Ford
July 01, 1995
This book brings to light many aspects of the Tet offensive of 1968, an event acknowledged as the turning-point of the Vietnam War. Using previously unseen Communist Vietnamese documents combined with sources of Western origin, the author provides a more accurate version of the events, their ...
The Australian Security Intelligence Organization: An Unofficial History
1st Edition
By Frank Cain
September 01, 1994
This book traces the history of Australia's highly secret Intelligence Security Organisation. Established in the early days of the Cold War, like most intelligence organisations working under covert conditions, it exceeded the vague powers entrusted to it. It has been the subject of two Royal ...
Intelligence, Defence and Diplomacy: British Policy in the Post-War World
1st Edition
By Richard J. Aldrich, Michael F. Hopkins
August 01, 1994
What was Britain's reaction to the death of Stalin? How has Britain reconciled a modern nuclear strategy with its traditional imperial defence commitments around the world? How has secret intelligence affected the Special Relationship' since 1945? Certain clear questions and perennial themes run ...
Espionage: Past, Present and Future?
1st Edition
Edited
By Wesley K. Wark
March 01, 1994
Highlights of the volume include pioneering essays on the methodology of intelligence studies by Michael Fry and Miles Hochstein, and the future perils of the surveillance state by James Der Derian. Two leading authorities on the history of Soviet/Russian intelligence, Christopher Andrew and Oleg ...
Policing Politics: Security Intelligence and the Liberal Democratic State
1st Edition
By Peter Gill
February 01, 1994
Numerous allegations of abuse of power have been made against the domestic security intelligence agencies in the United Kingdom such as police special branches and MI5. These include the improper surveillance of trade unionists and peace activists, campaigns of mis-information against elected ...
Dieppe Revisited: A Documentary Investigation
1st Edition
By John P. Campbell
November 01, 1993
This book reappraises the ill-fated raid named operation Jubilee, focusing on aspects such as naval and air operations in the Channel, signals, radar intelligence, agents and deception. It draws from official archives, both German and Allied. From these voluminous but fragmented records, many of ...
A Don at War
1st Edition
By Sir David, KCMG OBE Hunt
December 31, 1990
When A Don at War was published in 1966 it was hailed as the first book to be written from the point of view of the Intelligence staff officer in the field with critics remarking on Sir David Hunt's authoritative exposition of British as well as German strategies. Eight years later it was revealed ...
Intelligence and Military Operations
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Handel
July 01, 1990
Traditionally the military community held the intelligence profession in low esteem, spying was seen as dirty work and information was all to often ignored if it conflicted with a commander's own view. Handel examines the ways in which this situation has improved and argues that co-operation ...
War, Strategy and Intelligence
1st Edition
By Michael I. Handel
May 01, 1989
Investigating the logic, conduct and nature of war on the highest political and strategic levels, these essays put less emphasis on operational and tactical aspects. They look at the impact of technology on warfare, the political nature of war and the limits of rational analysis in studying war....
Leaders and Intelligence
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael I. Handel
February 01, 1989
From a systematic point of view, all intelligence work can be studied on three levels: Acquisition, analysis, and acceptance. The author focuses on the third of these levels, studying the attitudes and behavioural patterns developed by leaders during their political careers, their willingness to ...