1st Edition
From Northern Ireland to Afghanistan British Military Intelligence Operations, Ethics and Human Rights
By Jon Moran
Copyright 2013
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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Moran concentrates on three aims: to provide an overview of British military intelligence operations in the last 30 years which concentrates on operational not strategic intelligence; to examine the debates over ethics and effectiveness that have followed these operations; and to examine the increasing attempts to place military intelligence under the same type of regulation that police and... Read more
Contents: Military intelligence: effectiveness, ethics and human rights; Low intensity intelligence in Northern Ireland; Into the maelstrom: Iraq, (in)security and desperate intelligence ’wars’; Afghanistan: intelligence is not the solution; Conclusion: the uses and limits of intelligence in the British experience; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Jon Moran
’British military involvement in intelligence gathering and operations in counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism represents a compelling but under-researched issue. Jon Moran provides an original and insightful study of state activity, in which the British military have garnered a reputation not only for ingenuity but also for shameful abuses of ethics and human rights, all of which he fully documents.’ Clive Walker, University of Leeds, UK ’This exciting book is one of the first studies to shed light on recent British intelligence operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. It will be important reading for all those interested in the intersection between history, military ethics and public policy.’ Richard J. Aldrich, University of Warwick, UK
