Information management in the Intelligence Branch of Britain’s War Office, 1873-1914: ‘All information flows toward it, or returns to it, in a form worked up into shape’
Intelligence has always been an aspect of organized warfare. It was not until 1873, however, that the British Army recognised this formally by establishing an explicitly named unit, under the auspices of the War Office, dedicated to the development of strategic intelligence: the Intelligence Branch....
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De Gruyter
2020-06-01
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| Series: | Open Information Science |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/opis-2020-0008 |