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Historical Dictionary of Naval Intelligence
Nigel West
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Description for Historical Dictionary of Naval Intelligence
Hardback. The Historical Dictionary of Naval Intelligence relates the long and fascinating history of naval intelligence through a chronology, an introduction, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on the organizations, operations, and events that made Naval intelligence what it is today. Series: Historical Dictionaries of Intelligence and Counterintelligence. Num Pages: 442 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings, charts. BIC Classification: GBC; HBW; JWF; JWKF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 146 x 33. Weight in Grams: 708.
Naval intelligence is one of the most vital, and sometimes decisive, forms of intelligence. Over the centuries, and with particular velocity over recent decades, the techniques of detecting and destroying military (and commercial) shipping have improved, leapfrogging the equally frantic race to keep ahead of them and safeguard the huge investments involved. Today the new challenges range from an increasingly aggressive strategy adopted by Pyongyang's submarine fleet and the exclusion of illegal immigrants heading for Australia and southern Europe to the capture of cocaine-laded submarines in the Caribbean and the interdiction of Somali pirates off the Gulf of Aden. Any ... Read more
Naval intelligence is one of the most vital, and sometimes decisive, forms of intelligence. Over the centuries, and with particular velocity over recent decades, the techniques of detecting and destroying military (and commercial) shipping have improved, leapfrogging the equally frantic race to keep ahead of them and safeguard the huge investments involved. Today the new challenges range from an increasingly aggressive strategy adopted by Pyongyang's submarine fleet and the exclusion of illegal immigrants heading for Australia and southern Europe to the capture of cocaine-laded submarines in the Caribbean and the interdiction of Somali pirates off the Gulf of Aden. Any ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
442
Condition
New
Series
Historical Dictionaries of Intelligence and Counterintelligence
Number of Pages
442
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810867604
SKU
V9780810867604
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99-15
About Nigel West
Nigel West is currently the European Editor of the International Journal of Intelligence and Counter-Intelligence and teaches the history of postwar intelligence at the Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies in Alexandria, VA. He is the author of many books, including the Historical Dictionary of British Intelligence (Scarecrow, 2005), Historical Dictionary of International Intelligence (Scarecrow, 2006), Historical Dictionary of Cold ... Read more
Reviews for Historical Dictionary of Naval Intelligence
An excellent resource and is highly recommended.
American Reference Books Annual
Readers will find in these pages many striking examples of the use of naval intelligence which would have been unknown until recently....This dictionary will inform the general reader about many important and obscure aspects of twentieth-century naval affairs.
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This historical dictionary is hence of ... Read more
American Reference Books Annual
Readers will find in these pages many striking examples of the use of naval intelligence which would have been unknown until recently....This dictionary will inform the general reader about many important and obscure aspects of twentieth-century naval affairs.
s
This historical dictionary is hence of ... Read more