The History of Military Intelligence

Abstract

There is a paucity of material written about the history, development and growth of Military Intelligence. The purpose of this paper is to examine the development of intelligence, both organizationally and functionally, since the turn of the century. The examination will include historical milestones as well as comments from key commanders during our involvement in four major wars during this period. The end result should provide to members of the Military Intelligence Corps an article that summarizes and explains how we have finally come together as a Corps and provide information that will perhaps preclude mistakes made in the past from reoccurring in the future.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 31, 1989
Accession Number
ADA209718

Entities

People

  • Stephen C. Conrad

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Army Intelligence
  • Classification
  • Governments
  • Human Intelligence
  • Intelligence Collection
  • Intelligence Cycle
  • Korean War
  • Military Intelligence
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Second World War
  • Signals Intelligence
  • Surveillance
  • Training
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.