Huw Dylan

Defence Intelligence and the Cold War

Britain's Joint Intelligence Bureau 1945-1964

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Produktbeschreibung

The first history of the Joint Intelligence Bureau - an organisation designed to preserve and advance British capability in military intelligence for the Cold War - shedding light on the largely unknown world of military and economic intelligence after 1945, and how this intelligence influenced British policies throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780199657025
• ISBN-10: 0199657025
• Artikelnr.: 47866950

Autorenporträt

He received his PhD from the University of Aberystwyth in 2010.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: All-source intelligence for the post-war world: Creating the JIB
* 2: Mapping the enemy: The JIB and topographical intelligence in the
early Cold War, 1948-1953
* 3: Starving the Bear and the Dragon: The JIB and British export
controls, 1948-1954
* 4: The Soviet airborne threat: The JIB on bombers and missiles,
1946-1954
* 5: The age of vulnerability and 'gaps': The JIB on bombers and
missiles, 1954-1961
* 6: Networks, connections, and links: The international JIB
* 7: The merger of JIB with service intelligence and the creation of
the Defence Intelligence Staff
* Conclusion