From Pigeons to Tweets: A General Who Led Dramatic Changes in Military Communications, Clarence E McKnight

Автор: Spangler Jennifer
Название: The World War II Pigeons and the Secret Columba Messages
ISBN: 1478792116 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781478792116
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Цена: 20780.00 T
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Описание: Unless someone publishes a similar book, The World War II Pigeons and the Secret Columba Messages will be the first collection of some of the Columba messages held at The National Archives, London. Residents of occupied Europe wrote the messages and pigeons delivered the messages to Britain. The British created Operation Columba to gather intelligence from occupied France, Holland, and Belgium. From 1941 to 1945, British aircraft dropped approximately 17,000 pigeons in small containers attached to small parachutes. Those who found the pigeon also found a questionnaire, rice paper, a pencil, and a set of instructions for how to attach the message to the pigeon. Under the German occupation, sending a message with a pigeon was a crime punishable by death. This made the messages a unique form of communication, because unlike diaries or letters, the writer had little time to reflect and make decisions about what to write. The longer someone kept a pigeon, the more likely they were to be discovered. People risked their lives to give information about ammo dumps, troop movements, BBC transmissions, radar stations, the morale of the German soldiers, airfields, and their personal experiences. Some messages contain copious amounts of military intelligence. Some messages include military intelligence and also expressions of frustration and despair. The World War II Pigeons and the Secret Columba Messages does not include introductions to or summaries of the messages. The reader can absorb the information and the emotions without the influence of a contemporary analysis. Perhaps this book would be useful in history courses. The book contains the report on the German reaction to Operation Columba. The Germans deployed falcons to kill the pigeons. They also used decoy pigeons. The Germans trained pigeons to fly back to German pigeon lofts and they outfitted them with counterfeit British message capsules. The message writer would reveal intelligence intended for the British, but t

Автор: Simon Godfrey
Название: British Army Communications in the Second World War: Lifting the Fog of Battle
ISBN: 1441190392 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781441190390
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence form the backbone of the Army's operating system. But while much attention has been given in the literature to the other three elements, Communications in the British Army during World War II have been widely ignored. This book rectifies the omission. It shows that failures in front line communications contributed to several of the set backs suffered by the Army but also that ultimate victory was only achieved after a successful communications system was in place. It explains how the outcome of the main campaigns in Europe and North Africa depended on communications, how the system operated and how it evolved from a relatively primitive and inadequately supplied state at Dunkirk to a generally effective system at the time of the Rhine crossings. Problems still occurred however, for example at infantry platoon level and famously with paratrooper communications at Arnhem, often simply due to the shortcomings of existing technology. The book concludes that it is only very recently that advances in technology have allowed those problems to be solved.

Автор: Simon Godfrey
Название: British Army Communications in the Second World War: Lifting the Fog of Battle
ISBN: 147259133X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472591333
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence form the backbone of the Army's operating system. But while much attention has been given in the literature to the other three elements, Communications in the British Army during World War II have been widely ignored. This book rectifies the omission. It shows that failures in front line communications contributed to several of the set backs suffered by the Army but also that ultimate victory was only achieved after a successful communications system was in place. It explains how the outcome of the main campaigns in Europe and North Africa depended on communications, how the system operated and how it evolved from a relatively primitive and inadequately supplied state at Dunkirk to a generally effective system at the time of the Rhine crossings. Problems still occurred however, for example at infantry platoon level and famously with paratrooper communications at Arnhem, often simply due to the shortcomings of existing technology. The book concludes that it is only very recently that advances in technology have allowed those problems to be solved.

Автор: Poindexter Dennis F.
Название: The Chinese Information War: Espionage, Cyberwar, Communications Control and Related Threats to United States Interests,
ISBN: 1476672717 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476672717
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Цена: 44350.00 T
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Описание: China`s information war against the United States is technically clever, broadly applied and successful. The US intelligence community has publicly stated this is a kind of war we do not know how to fight. China`s political systems are more easily adapted to this form of warfare, as their recent land seizures in the South China Sea demonstrate.

Название: Military communications
ISBN: 1851097325 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781851097326
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание: An alphabetically organized encyclopedia that provides both a history of military communications and an assessment of current methods and applications.

Автор: Macalaster Elizabeth G.
Название: War Pigeons: Winged Couriers in the U.S. Military, 1878-1957
ISBN: 1476680809 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476680804
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Описание: Provides the first complete account of the remarkable service that homing pigeons provided for the American armed forces, from its fledgling beginnings after the Civil War to the birds` invaluable role in communications in every branch of the US military through both World Wars and beyond.