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World War I and the Foundations of American Intelligence Hardcover – November 16, 2023

by Mark Stout (Author)
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Ask an American intelligence officer to tell you when the country started doing modern intelligence and you will probably hear something about the Office of Strategic Services in World War II or the National Security Act of 1947 and the formation of the Central Intelligence Agency. What you almost certainly will not hear is anything about World War I. In World War I and the Foundations of American Intelligence, Mark Stout establishes that, in fact, World War I led to the realization that intelligence was indispensable in both wartime and peacetime.

After a lengthy gestation that started in the late nineteenth century, modern American intelligence emerged during World War I, laying the foundations for the establishment of a self-conscious profession of intelligence. Virtually everything that followed was maturation, reorganization, reinvigoration, or reinvention. World War I ushered in a period of rapid changes. Never again would the War Department be without an intelligence component. Never again would a senior American commander lead a force to war without intelligence personnel on their staff. Never again would the United States government be without a signals intelligence agency or aerial reconnaissance capability.

Stout examines the breadth of American intelligence in the war, not just in France, not just at home, but around the world and across the army, navy, and State Department, and demonstrates how these far-flung efforts endured after the Armistice in 1918. For the first time, there came to be a group of intelligence practitioners who viewed themselves as different from other soldiers, sailors, and diplomats. Upon entering World War II, the United States had a solid foundation from which to expand to meet the needs of another global hot war and the Cold War that followed.

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  2. Language
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    University Press of Kansas
  4. Publication date
    November 16, 2023
  5. Dimensions
    6.25 x 1.5 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0700635858
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0700635856
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World War I laid the foundations for the establishment of modern American intelligence.
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"This sweep of history is addressed superbly by historian Mark Stout in World War I and the Foundations of American Intelligence. He offers not only a profound work of scholarship that illuminates the origins of today’s U.S. intelligence community, but also puts this larger canvas to good use to reveal much that’s generally unknown about America’s rise to global primacy."—SpyTalk

“Entire libraries have been written about the Central Intelligence Agency and, to a lesser extent, the Office of Strategic Services. This has resulted in a lopsided and incomplete picture of the history of American intelligence. Transforming the intellectual landscape, Mark Stout delivers a magnificent historical narrative that charts the birth and development of modern American intelligence from the late nineteenth century through World War I. Stout provides a fascinating story packed not only with colorful characters and exciting escapades, but with careful scholarly assessments of subjects including intelligence collection, intelligence analysis, counterintelligence, and covert action. All future histories of American intelligence will need to reference this pioneering work.”—Christopher R. Moran, professor of US national security at the University of Warwick, UK, and coeditor in chief of the Journal of Intelligence History

About the Author

Mark Stout is a former senior lecturer and director of the Master of Arts in Global Security Studies program at Johns Hopkins University. He is also the co-author of The Terrorist Perspectives Project: Strategic and Operational Views of Al Qaeda and Associated Movements and co-editor of Spy Chiefs, Volume 1: Intelligence Leaders in the United States and United Kingdom.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University Press of Kansas (November 16, 2023)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 392 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0700635858
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0700635856
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 1.5 x 9 inches
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