Knowing Your Friends: Intelligence Inside Alliances and Coalitions from 1914 to the Cold War

by Alexander,Martin S.

• ISBN13: 9780714644332
• ISBN10: 0714644331
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1998-05-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Sun Tzu said that it is as important to know yourself - and by extension, your allies - as it is to know your enemies. This is a study of the murky, ultra-sensitive business of gathering intelligence among, and forming estimates about, friendly powers, and friendly or allied military forces. States sometimes enter into coalitions or alliances mainly and explicitly because their intelligence evaluation of the potential partner concluded that making the alliance was, from the originator's national security interest, the best thing to do. This collection investigates this aspect of intelligence.

Table of Contents

Knowing your friends, assessing your allies - perspectives on intra-alliance intelligence

uneasy alliances - French military intelligence and the American army during World War I

"Perfidious Albion?" - French perceptions of Britain as an ally after World War I

the entente cordiale and the next war - Anglo-French views on future military co-operation, 1928-1939

from little brother to senior partner - fascist Italian perceptions of the Nazis and of Hitler's regime, 1930-1936

the interplay of information and mind in decision making - signals intelligence and Franklin D. Roosevelt's policy shift on Indochina

American intelligence and the British Raj - the OSS, the SSU and India, 1942-1947

the politicization of intelligence - the British experience in Greece, 1941-1944, Christinea Goulter-Zervoudakis, "nihil mirare, nihil contemptare, omnia intelligere" - Franco-Vietnamese intelligence in Indochina, 1950-54

brotherly enemies - the rise and fall of the Syrian-Egyptian intelligence axis, 1954-67

the KGB and the control of the Soviet bloc - the case of East Germany

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