Knowing Your Friends: Intelligence Inside Alliances and Coalitions from 1914 to the Cold War (Cass Series--Studies in Intelligence.)

Little attention has been paid to the murky, ultra-business of gathering intelligence among and forming estimates about friendly powers, and friendly or allied military forces. How rarely have scholars troubled to discover when states entered 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 game in town. The twentieth century has been chosen to enhance the coherence of and connections between, the subject matter of this under-explored part of intelligence studies. Dedication Contents 1 Introduction: Knowing Your Friends, Assessing Your Allies – Perspectives on Intra-Alliance Intelligence • Martin S. Alexander 2 Uneasy Alliances: French Military Intelligence and the American Armyduring the First World War • Jennifer D. Keene 3 ‘Perfidious Albion?’ French Perceptions of Britain as an Ally after the First World War • J. F. V. Keiger 5 From Little Brother to Senior Partner: Fascist Italian Perceptions of the Nazis and of Hitler’s Regime, 1930–1936 • Brian R. Sullivan 6 The Interplay of Information and Mind in Decision-Making: Signals Intelligence and Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Policy-Shift on Indochina • Kathryn E. Brown 7 American Intelligence and the British Raj: The OSS, the SSU and India, 1942–1947 • Richard J. Aldrich 8 The Politicization of Intelligence: The British Experience in Greece,1941–1944 • Christina Goulter-Zervoudakis 9 ‘Nihil mirare, nihil contemptare, omnia intelligere’: Franco-Vietnamese Intelligence in Indochina, 1950–1954 • Alexander Zervoudakis 10 Brotherly Enemies: The Rise and Fall of the Syrian-Egyptian Intelligence Axis,1954–1967 • Andrew Rathmell 11 The KGB and the Control of the Soviet Bloc: The Case of East Germany • Richard J. Popplewell Abstracts About the Contributors Index Uneasy Alliances / Jennifer D. Keene -- Perfidious Albion? / J.f.v. Keiger -- Entente Cordiale And The Next War / Martin S. Alexander And William J. Philpott -- From Little Brother To Senior Partner / Brian R. Sullivan -- Interplay Of Information And Mind In Decision-making / Kathryn E. Brown -- American Intelligence And The British Raj / Richard J. Aldrich -- Politicization Of Intelligence / Christina Goulter-zervoudakis -- Nihil Mirare, Nihil Contemptare, Omnia Intelligere / Alexander Zervoudakis -- Brotherly Enemies / Andrew Rathmell -- Kgb And The Control Of The Soviet Bloc / Richard J. Popplewell. Edited By Martin S. Alexander. This Group Of Studies First Appeared In A Special Issue Of The Journal Intelligence And National Security, Vol. 13, No. 1 (spring 1998) Published By Frank Cass Publishers--verso T.p. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. 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.