HIS343Y1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Chain Reaction, Nikita Khrushchev, Zacarias Moussaoui
Document Summary
Viewing espionage as a profession, a legitimate career, helps ensure its existence. Espionage is linked to power, catching your opponent off-guard. Method of securing and tipping the balance of power. Intelligence is the method of collection, analysis and dissemination. Boer war showed british weakness, and the boxer rebellion demonstrated the perils of overextension. Domestic security, popular culture, international system, impacts of science of war and imperial rivalry. Britain wants to weed out spies internally popular culture scare of invasion by german spies and other undesirables. Chain reaction of spying between germany and england. Initial creation of an intelligence system is based on fear and misjudgement of intentions its created out of the fear that one exists to antagonize the party affected. Intelligence fades after ww1 it is forgotten. Naval battle that took place may 1915, british intercept german message about a naval ambush.
