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Confronting the colonies : British intelligence and counterinsurgency / Rory Cormac.
By: Cormac, Rory [author.]
.Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource (xii, 295 pages).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780199388257 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Intelligence service -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century | Counterinsurgency -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1945-Additional Physical Form: Print version : 9780199354436DDC classification: 327.124101712410904 Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: Moving the debate beyond the place of tactical intelligence in counterinsurgency warfare, this book considers the view from Whitehall, where the biggest decisions were made. It reveals the evolving impact of strategic intelligence upon government understandings of, and policy responses to, insurgent threats. The book demonstrates for the first time how, in the decades after World War Two, the intelligence agenda expanded to include non-state actors, insurgencies, and irregular warfare.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Moving the debate beyond the place of tactical intelligence in counterinsurgency warfare, this book considers the view from Whitehall, where the biggest decisions were made. It reveals the evolving impact of strategic intelligence upon government understandings of, and policy responses to, insurgent threats. The book demonstrates for the first time how, in the decades after World War Two, the intelligence agenda expanded to include non-state actors, insurgencies, and irregular warfare.
Description based on print version record.