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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.
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Imprint: |
University Press of Kansas
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
November 2023 |
Authors: |
Mark Stout
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
392 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-7006-3585-6 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-7006-3585-8 |
Barcode: |
9780700635856 |
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