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… offers novel insights that contribute to our general understanding of military intelligence. It frames the study of intelligence against larger developments in U. S. military, diplomatic, and domestic political history. It examines bureaucratic and inter-service rivalries and shows how they affected the development of important national policies. It assesses the impact of technological developments on policy questions that confronted U. S. officers … It represents the first study of a topic of importance in military and intelligence history. Tthe arguments presented rest on copious research in primary records, notably the previously-untapped records of the Air Force Material Command History Office at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base … extremely well-written, and carefully negotiates complicated technical and bureaucratic details.
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