The British Army And Signals Intelligence During The First World War

Author : John Ferris
Publisher : Alan Sutton Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015029519819

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The British Army and Signals Intelligence During the First World War by John Ferris Pdf

"Historians have paid little attention to the British Army's experience with signals intelligence during the First World War. However, this was one of the Army's most important sources of information about crucial matters such as the order of battle and intentions of the German and Turkish Armies. Britain's successes and failures in signals intelligence profoundly affected battles ranging from the race for the Channel Ports, first Somme, third Gaza and Amiens, among many others." "While efforts to weed the records on these topics have created major gaps in the sources, surviving evidence throws an entirely new light on the British Army in the Great War. It allows one to trace the evolution of the Army's signals intelligence organisations, to determine many of their successes and failures, to show how this intelligence affected various operations and, indeed, to demonstrate that signals intelligence influenced the operations of the British Army as much as those of the Royal Navy." "The material reproduced in this volume includes excerpts from reports by Army Headquarters in France, Italy and Mesopotamia and the Military Intelligence Directorate. It includes the memorandum "Enemy Codes and their Solution" by the G.H.Q. codebreaking section in January 1918, which is one of the two best sources known to exist about the techniques of "codebreaking"; surviving reports on the enemy radio networks in the Balkans and Anatolian Turkey, which are the most illuminating evidence from any theatre on the approach toward "traffic analysis" and a report on the breaking of German and Turkish Army ciphers in Mesopotamia during 1917, which is the best source known about the techniques of "cryptanalysis" used by an Army in the Great War."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Michael Dockrill
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1996-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826430465

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Strategy & Intelligence by Michael Dockrill Pdf

This collection of essays discusses various aspects of the First World War and aims to summarize the latest literature on Britain's participation in that war and also to open up new lines of investigation. These include the role of intelligence in land and air battles; Anglo-American financial relations; Anglo-Russian and Anglo-Irish relations; the British Labour movement in the war; and the final campaigns of 1918, which led to the Allied victory. These essays are written not only for the specialist but also to be accessible to students and to the general reader.

Author : Peter Matthews
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752493015

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SIGINT by Peter Matthews Pdf

SIGNALS INTELLIGENCE, or SIGINT, is the interception and evaluation of coded enemy messages. From Enigma to Ultra, Purple to Lorenz, Room 40 to Bletchley, SIGINT has been instrumental in both victory and defeat during the First and Second World War.In the First World War, a vast network of signals rapidly expanded across the globe, spawning a new breed of spies and intelligence operatives to code, de-code and analyse thousands of messages. As a result, signallers and cryptographers in the Admiralty’s famous Room 40 paved the way for the code breakers of Bletchley Park in the Second World War. In the ensuing war years the world battled against a web of signals intelligence that gave birth to Enigma and Ultra, and saw agents from Britain, France, Germany, Russia, America and Japan race to outwit each other through infinitely complex codes. For the first time, Peter Matthews reveals the secret history of global signals intelligence during the world wars through original interviews with German interceptors, British code breakers, and US and Russian cryptographers."SIGINT is a fascinating account of what Allied investigators learned postwar about the Nazi equivalent of Bletchley Park. Turns out, 60,000 crptographers, analysts and linguists achieved considerable success in solving intercepted traffic, and even broke the Swiss Enigma! Based on recently declassifed NSA document, this is a great contribution to the literature." THE ST ERMIN'S HOTEL INTELLIGENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2014.

Author : John Ferris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134233359

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Intelligence and Strategy by John Ferris Pdf

John Ferris is a major figure in the intelligence studies field, both through his pioneering work in British intelligence and in his studies of British strategic history. This superb volume selects his best essays of the past fifteen years.

Author : James Leslie Gilbert,John Patrick Finnegan
Publisher : DIANE Publishing Inc.
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015029851857

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U.S. Army Signals Intelligence in World War II by James Leslie Gilbert,John Patrick Finnegan Pdf

Author : David Alvarez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135262501

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Allied and Axis Signals Intelligence in World War II by David Alvarez Pdf

The importance of codebreaking and signals intelligence in the diplomacy and military operations of World War II is reflected in this study of the cryptanalysts, not only of the US and Britain, but all the Allies. The codebreaking war was a global conflict in which many countries were active. The contributions reveal that, for the Axis as well as the Allies, success in the signals war often depended upon close collaboration among alliance partners.

Author : Matthew S. Seligmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191514630

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Spies in Uniform by Matthew S. Seligmann Pdf

Why did the British government declare war on Germany in August 1914? Was it because Germany posed a threat to British national security? Today many prominent historians would argue that this was not the case and that a million British citizens died needlessly for a misguided cause. This book counters such revisionist arguments. Matthew Seligmann disputes the suggestion that the British government either got its facts wrong about the German threat or even, as some have claimed, deliberately 'invented' it in order to justify an otherwise unnecessary alignment with France and Russia. By examining the military and naval intelligence assessments forwarded from Germany to London by Britain's service attachés in Berlin, its 'men on the spot', Spies in Uniform clearly demonstrates that the British authorities had every reason to be alarmed. From these crucial intelligence documents, previously thought to have been lost, Dr Seligmann shows that in the decade before the First World War, the British government was kept well informed about military and naval developments in the Reich. In particular, the attachés consistently warned that German ambitions to challenge Britain posed a real and imminent danger to national security. As a result, the book concludes that the British government's perception of a German threat before 1914, far from being mistaken or invented, was rooted in hard and credible intelligence.

Author : James L. Gilbert,John Patrick Finnegan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1410214591

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U.s. Army Signals Intelligence In World War Ii by James L. Gilbert,John Patrick Finnegan Pdf

This book is part of the Army historical community's commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of World War II. American victory in that conflict was brought about not only by the valor of our fighting men and the immensity of our productive capacity, but also by the availability of superb military intelligence. Much of this intelligence came from the ability of our armed forces to intercept and decipher the most secret communications of their adversaries. For many years security considerations prevented any public mention of these successes in the official histories. Now much of the story can be told. To preserve the memory of the Army's role in this intelligence war, the U. S. Army Center of Military History has joined with the History Office, U. S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM), to publish this collection of documents on Army signals intelligence in World War II. INSCOM carries on the heritage of the Army's World War II Signal Security Agency, which by breaking the Japanese diplomatic ciphers and military codes helped speed the way of our forces to victory. The book is intended both for an Army audience and for the general public - including those World War II veterans who participated in the signals intelligence war and who for so many years were constrained to keep their contributions secret. The security barriers have now been lifted, and the Army is proud to acknowledge those contributions. Harold W. NelsonCharles F. Scanlon Brigadier General, US ArmyMajor General, US Army Chief of Military HistoryCommanding General, US Army Intelligence and Security Command

Author : Yigal Sheffy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135245702

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British Military Intelligence in the Palestine Campaign, 1914-1918 by Yigal Sheffy Pdf

Shortly after the end of the First World War, General Sir George Macdonagh, wartime director of British Military Intelligence, revealed that Lord Allenby's victory in Palestine had never been in doubt because of the success of his intelligence service. Seventy-five years later this book explains Macdonagh's statement. Sheffy also adopts a novel approach to traditional heroes of the campaign such as T E Lawrence.

Author : Mark Stout
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700635856

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World War I and the Foundations of American Intelligence by Mark Stout Pdf

Ask an American intelligence officer to tell you when the country started doing modern intelligence and you will probably hear something about the Office of Strategic Services in World War II or the National Security Act of 1947 and the formation of the Central Intelligence Agency. What you almost certainly will not hear is anything about World War I. In World War I and the Foundations of American Intelligence, Mark Stout establishes that, in fact, World War I led to the realization that intelligence was indispensable in both wartime and peacetime. After a lengthy gestation that started in the late nineteenth century, modern American intelligence emerged during World War I, laying the foundations for the establishment of a self-conscious profession of intelligence. Virtually everything that followed was maturation, reorganization, reinvigoration, or reinvention. World War I ushered in a period of rapid changes. Never again would the War Department be without an intelligence component. Never again would a senior American commander lead a force to war without intelligence personnel on their staff. Never again would the United States government be without a signals intelligence agency or aerial reconnaissance capability. Stout examines the breadth of American intelligence in the war, not just in France, not just at home, but around the world and across the army, navy, and State Department, and demonstrates how these far-flung efforts endured after the Armistice in 1918. For the first time, there came to be a group of intelligence practitioners who viewed themselves as different from other soldiers, sailors, and diplomats. Upon entering World War II, the United States had a solid foundation from which to expand to meet the needs of another global hot war and the Cold War that followed.

Author : James Leslie Gilbert
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810884595

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World War I and the Origins of U.S. Military Intelligence by James Leslie Gilbert Pdf

World War I and the Origins of U.S. Military Intelligence provides the most authoritative overview of the birth of the Army's modern use of intelligence services processes, starting with World War I.

Author : Frank Birch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic surveillance
ISBN : UOM:39015082695522

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The Official History of British Sigint 1914-1945 by Frank Birch Pdf

Author : Jim Beach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107471030

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Haig's Intelligence by Jim Beach Pdf

Haig's Intelligence is an important study of Douglas Haig's controversial command during the First World War. Based on extensive new research, it addresses a perennial question about the British army on the Western Front between 1916 and 1918: why did they think they were winning? Jim Beach reveals how the British perceived the German army through a study of the development of the British intelligence system, its personnel and the ways in which intelligence was gathered. He also examines how intelligence shaped strategy and operations by exploring the influence of intelligence in creating perceptions of the enemy. He shows for the first time exactly what the British knew about their opponent, when and how and, in so doing, sheds significant new light on continuing controversies about the British army's conduct of operations in France and Belgium and the relationship between Haig and his chief intelligence officer, John Charteris.

Author : Donal J. Sexton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1996-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313037672

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Signals Intelligence in World War II by Donal J. Sexton Pdf

In 1974 Frederick W. Winterbotham's book The Ultra Secret disclosed the Allied success in breaking the German high command ciphers in World War II, and a new form of history began—the study of intelligence and its impact on military operations and international politics. This guide documents and annotates over 800 sources that have appeared in the past 20 years. It examines and evaluates primary and secondary sources dealing with the role of ULTRA and MAGIC in the Pearl Harbor attack, the battles of the Atlantic, Coral Sea, and Midway, and the campaigns in the Mediterranean, Northwest Europe, the Middle East, and the Pacific, as well as in the realm of espionage and special operations. It also covers sources on the Sigint and cryptanalytic programs of the Axis and neutral powers. The book examines and annotates primary and secondary sources on the role of ULTRA and MAGIC in the Pearl Harbor attack, the battles of the Atlantic, Coral Sea, and Midway, and the campaigns in the Mediterranean, Northwest Europe, the Middle East, and the Pacific, as well as in the realm of espionage and special operations. It also provides details on sources concerned with Sigint and cryptanalytic programs of the Axis and neutral powers.

Author : Brian N. Hall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107170551

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Communications and British Operations on the Western Front, 1914-1918 by Brian N. Hall Pdf

This book reveals the impact of communications on the military operations of the British Expeditionary Force during the First World War.