Winston Churchill had a longer and closer relationship with the Royal Navy than any British
statesman in modern times, but his record as a naval strategist and custodian of the nation's …

To wage war, become an anthropologist. Lose the fascination with Clausewitz, and embrace
culture as the way to understand conflict. Or so argue a number of strategists, historians, and …

Volume One of the Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee draws upon a range of
released and classified papers to produce the first, authoritative account of the way in which …

Intelligence is a subject that fires the popular imagination. Whether in fact or fiction, stories of
agents working undercover against all odds to obtain secret information or engage in …

This volume charts how the national strategic needs of the United States of America and
Great Britain created a" parallel but not joint" relationship towards the Far East as the crisis …

How serious was the threat of pre-war Japanese espionage and clandestine operations to
western interests? The question, constantly asked before 1941, was rarely addressed …

A new look at how Britain's defence establishment learned to engage Japan's armed forces
as the Pacific War progressed. Douglas Ford reveals that, prior to Japan's invasion of …

The past twenty years have seen the rapid growth of a new branch of international history,
the serious academic study of secret services or 'intelligence history'with its attendant …

This article clarifies a mythologized episode in the early development of the South China
Sea disputes and shows how it was later 'forgotten'by British policymakers for strategic …

Just days before the outbreak of war in Europe in September 1939, the Foreign Office in
London received a letter from Ian Morrison, late Honorary Attaché to the British embassy in …