HTST 490 Study Guide - Final Guide: Royal Air Force, Imagery Intelligence, Electronic Component

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: History
• Course: HTST 490
• Professor: John Ferris

Document Summary

Italy declines during this era, and they no longer can break into the systems that do matter. The soviets also continue in their strengths during wwii, but decline. Italians cannot break into the new high grade british/american systems. For the soviets, this is unpunctuated by the purges. Soviets among the worst when it comes to military intelligence in 41-42. The purges also mean that the soviets lose contact with their major agents throughout the world. It becomes clear that the soviets are receiving intelligence that is useful, but stalin will not take it. Information processing: confronting the need for states to deal with communication systems and make them useful. First state to effectively do this is the germans. German army, navy, and air force are looking for force multipliers. They do not want to get sucked into a war of attrition, correctly so. Looking for means for fight a quick victory and maneuver-based war.