1st Edition

Intelligence and Strategy Selected Essays

By John Ferris Copyright 2005
408 Pages
by Routledge

408 Pages
by Routledge

408 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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?

Biography

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).