By Michael Herman
Intelligence prone shape an enormous yet debatable a part of the fashionable nation. Drawing almost always on British and American examples, this e-book presents an analytic framework for knowing the ''intelligence community'' and assessing its worth. Michael Herman, a former senior British Intelligence officer, describes many of the parts of intelligence; discusses what intelligence is for; considers problems with accuracy, evaluate and potency; and makes suggestions for the way forward for intelligence within the post-Cold warfare global.
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Ferris, 'Before "Room 40": the British Empire and Signals Intelligence, 1898-1914', Journal of Strategic Studies vol. 12 no. 4 (December 1989), pp. 431-57. Organizations 23 evidence of German troop concentrations. But even more striking was the war's stimulation of the two new 'technical' sources. 33 The other was airborne photography, now known as imagery, or sometimes Imint or Photint. Both these technical sources remained in existence after 1918, and the Second World War saw them developed again, on a vastly larger scale.
The impetus came in peacetime, as central planning for defence slowly took shape. British national defence decisions in the 1930s needed intelligence on German capabilities as a whole, particularly its capacity for military production and its dependence on imported raw materials. A further strand was the need, realized after the war scares of early 1939, for some means of bringing together all evidence of immediate German intentions; the lack of any central assessment machinery had provoked the precipitate British guarantee to Poland in March 1939,41 just as it was to be a cause of the United States' Pearl Harbor disaster in 1941.
Analysis retained strong departmental connections, but with this extra 'national' layer added to it. On the whole this has remained characteristic of the English-speaking models; other countries have sought to imitate them but usually without noticeable success. The manageable community The introduction of national collection and national assessment both implied that intelligence was more than a set of independent 42 43 E . E . T h o m a s , 'The Evolution of the JIC System U p to and During the Second World War' in C.