HTST 489 Lecture Notes - Guerrilla Warfare, Conventional Warfare, Failure In The Intelligence Cycle
14 Feb 2014
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Next week: finally getting to the historical material. One very important to the way military officers conceive of the role of intelligence, one not simple to grasp target acquisition and strike warfare. Looking at weapons whose operators are firing at targets they can"t see. Definition begins when operators are firing at targets they cannot see. Intelligence becomes fundamental in the way these work. Once gunners begin to shoot at targets they can"t see using targets between them. Process is more complicated and generally speaking in wwi you"re firing at targets you can see, but bringing in mechanical devices to guide fire. With artillery, a form of intel that few people think of now but in wwi was as important as. Triangulate position through sound, or through flash spotting uses gunflashes. Later in the twentieth c. , find this being introduced to aircraft strikes. British make efforts to launch airstrikes on german subs in the north sea.
