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World War I and the Origins of U.S. Military Intelligence
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2012
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In World War I and the Origins of U.S. Military Intelligence, military historian James L. Gilbert provides an authoritative overview of the birth of modern Army intelligence. Following the natural division of the intelligence war, which was fought on both the home front and overseas, Gilbert traces the development and use of intelligence and counterintelligence through the eyes of their principal architects: General Dennis E. Nolan and Colonel Ralph Van Deman.
Gilbert explores how on the home front, US Army counterintelligence faced both internal and external threats that began with the Army’s growing concerns over the loyalty of resident aliens who were being drafted into the ranks and soon evolved into the rooting out of enemy saboteurs and spies intent on doing great harm to America’s war effort. To achieve their goals, counterintelligence personnel relied upon major strides in the areas of code breaking and detection of secret inks. Overseas, the intelligence effort proved far more extensive in terms of resources and missions, even reaching into nearby neutral countries. Intelligence within the American Expeditionary Forces was heavily indebted to its Allied counterparts who not only provided an organizational blueprint but also veteran instructors and equipment needed to train newly arriving intelligence specialists. Rapid advances by American intelligence were also made possible by the appointment of competent leaders and the recruitment of highly motivated and skilled personnel; likewise, the Army’s decision to assign the bulk of its linguists to support intelligence proved critical. World War I would witness the linkage between intelligence and emerging technologies—from the use of cameras in aircraft to the intercept of enemy radio transmissions. Equally significant was the introduction of new intelligence disciplines—from exploitation of captured equipment to the translation of enemy documents. These and other functions that emerged from World War I would continue to the present to provide military intelligence with the essential tools necessary to support the Army and the nation.
World War I and the Origins of U.S. Military Intelligence is ideal not only for students and scholars of military history and World War I, but will also appeal to any reader interested in how modern intelligence operations first evolved.
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Copyright year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-0-8108-8459-5
ISBN-Online
978-0-8108-8460-1
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
246
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Foreword No access
Preface No access
Ch01. Steps to War No access Pages 1 - 24
Ch02. America Enters the War No access Pages 25 - 54
Ch03. Intelligence and the AEF No access Pages 55 - 82
Ch04. Securing the Home Front No access Pages 83 - 116
Photospread No access Pages B1 - P1
Ch05. Tested under Fire No access Pages 117 - 172
Ch06. Coming to a Close No access Pages 173 - 204
Ch07. The Aftermath No access Pages 205 - 222
Appendix A. Military Intelligence Division in the War Department No access Pages 223 - 224
Appendix B. Radio-Tractor Units No access Pages 225 - 226
Appendix C. G2 Organization at GHQ No access Pages 227 - 228
Appendix D. First Army Observation/Photo Air Service, November 1918 No access Pages 229 - 230
Appendix E. First Army Signals Intelligence Stations, November 1918 No access Pages 231 - 232
Appendix F. First Army Security Service Monitoring Stations, November 1918 No access Pages 233 - 234
