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John Ferris' work in strategic and intelligence history is widely praised for its originality and the breadth of its research. At last his major pioneering articles are now available in this one single volume. In Intelligence and Strategy these essential articles have been fundamentally revised to incorporate new evidence and information withheld by governments when they were first published. This volume reshapes the study of communications intelligence by tracing Britain's development of cipher machines providing the context to Ultra and Enigma, and by explaining how British and German signals intelligence shaped the desert war. The author also explains how intelligence affected British strategy and diplomacy from 1874 to 1940 and world diplomacy during the 1930s and the Second World War. Finally he traces the roots for contemporary intelligence, and analyzes intelligence and the RMA as well as the role of intelligence in the 2003 Gulf War. This volume ultimately brings new light to our understanding of the relations between intelligence, strategy and diplomacy between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 21st century.

In Canada-US Defence Relations Post 9/11, David Bercuson examines the history of the Canada-United States defence relationship, how it has changed since 9/11 and its implications with respect to the strength and utility of Canada's armed forces.Rob Huebert documents the two most significant chanllenges the canadian Arctic will face as climate change contines in Climate Change and Canadian Sovereignty in the Northwest Passage. First, current efforts by the Canadian Government to maintain Canadian sovereignty over the Northwest Passage are unlikely to succeed. Secondly, Canada will need to substantially rethink its Arctic enforcement and surveillance capabilities, which will require significant new expenditures in these areas.Barry Cooper reports on what Canadians with much peacekeeping experience think about what these activies have become. He also discusses what he considers to be the ambiguous results of the transformation of Canadian armed forces from war-fighters to peacekeepers in Canadian Discourse on Peacekeeping.

The Partisan War in North-West Russia 1941-44: A Re-Examiniation delineates the extent to which the limited achievements of the Soviet partisan movement in north-west Russia during the first months of the Great Patriotic War can be attributed to inadequacies in the organization, leadership, equipment, and training of the movement. While this is the position emphasized in Soviet and post-Soveity Russian published works, Alexander hill concludes, on the basis of Soviet archival sources, that although these factors were important, German occupation policies far more effectively inhibited partisan activity in the area than exisiting published material would have us believe. These policies seem only to be have been effective, however, in the context of the German military successes (or rather, perceived successes) at the front.The real and perceived threats posed by pastoral nomadic peoples to the security of sedentary societies and states are well known. Civilized states could, however, sometimes choose from a repertoire of diplomatic, tactical, and strategic measures and cautions in response to present or imminent nomadic onslaughts. Nomadic Power, Sedentary Security

John Ferris examines the Revolution in Military Affairs with regard to how The Biggest Force Multiplier?: Knowledge, Information and Warfare in the 21st Century affected discussions on military policy and the knowledge available to armed forces, thus shaping the nature of war.In Calculating Costs: A Critical Assessment of Verification Costs for a Fissile Material Cutoff (a regime discussed at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1995), George MacLean and James Keeley examine the often overlooked financial aspects affecting the viability of a treaty crucial to the process of nuclear disarmament and arms control. Their article examines the estimated costs of verifiying the cutoff, including analuyses of configurations of the cutoff itself, and the varying verification systems that may be implemented.Gavin Cameron's article, WMD Terrorism: No Longer of Question of If, but When? considers the likelihood of terrorists using chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) weapons after 9/11. He argues that massive conventional weapons remain a more realistic threat, in part owing to the difficulties of acquiring and using CBRN weapons. Past uses or attempted uses of such weapons by terrorists and the tactical choices made by the9/11 attackers are considered, and the effect of the attack on other groups' tactical choices in the future is then analyszed.

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