Richard J Aldrich
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 714098 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Richard J Aldrich |
| PRENOMES | Richard J |
| SOBRENOME | Aldrich |
| ASSINATURA | ALDRICH R J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Warwick |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 89 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1993 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
No cloak, no dagger
Project Spaceman
Much has been written about the prehistory of ‘cyber’ and computer security in the United States, but we know less about other countries. This essay seeks to examine early British efforts in this field and especially attacks by ‘Tiger Teams’ against ICL mainframe computers that were being deployed by MI5 and other agencies. Over 2 years, a sophisticated programme was completed. It argues that a severe expertise shortage ensured a degree of conver…
How to survive a crisis
Journal Article How to survive a crisis Get access How to survive a crisis: lessons in resilience and avoiding disaster. By Omand David. London and Dublin: Viking. 2023. 368pp. £20.00. Isbn978 0 24156 133 1. Available as e-book. Richard J Aldrich, Richard J Aldrich University of Warwick, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Huda Mukbil, Huda Mukbil University of Ottawa, Canada Search for other works by this …
From sigint to cyber
In 2020, GCHQ published an authorised history, joining MI5 and MI6 in commemorating its centenary.1 This book is arguably more important than its predecessors, since it charts the rise of ‘The Big
Secrets, spies and editors in Cold War America
This essay considers secrets, spies and newspaper editors in the context of the Washington Post’s relationship with the CIA. The associated relationships and thoughts of Ben Bradlee, long-serving editor of the Washington Post and one of America’s most iconic journalists, are examined in detail. Bradlee spent much time reflecting on what the appropriate relationship between spies and the media should be and this is captured in his correspondence. …
Operation Rubicon
The story of Operation Rubicon provides a ‘missing link’ in the history signals intelligence. It connects the period of the Second World War, dominated by Bletchley Park and Arlington Hall, with the Snowden era. This special section examines signals intelligence in the latter decades of the twentieth century, arguing that the processes of covert interference that were used help us to understand sources and methods in our present times. It examine…
Cryptography and the Global South
For decades, espionage during the Cold War was often presented as a competition between East and West. The extent to which the Global South constituted the main battleground for this conflict is now being appreciated, together with the way coups and covert regime change represented a continuation of colonialism by other means. Recent revelations about the nature of technical surveillance and signals intelligence during this period paint an even m…
The Secret Empire of Signals Intelligence
Why did Britain remove the population of an idyllic Indian Ocean archipelago? Why has Britain resisted granting citizenship to the inhabitants of another small island in the mid-Atlantic? Why does Britain still ‘own’ 90 square miles of Cyprus? The answer, we suggest, lies in part with the heritage of Bletchley Park, an obsession with informational dominance in world politics that demands the control of key nodes in international telecommunication…
Delayed Disclosure
The significance of Edward Snowden’s revelations has been viewed primarily through the prism of threats to citizen privacy. Instead, we argue that the most dramatic change has been a decline of government secrecy, especially around national security. While the ethical aspects of state secrets and ‘whistle-blowing’ have received recent attention, few have attempted to explain the dynamics of this growing climate of exposure. Our argument is largel…
Secrecy, spies and the global South
The study of secrecy and spies remain subjects dominated by Anglo-American experiences. In recent years there has been some effort to refocus the lens of research upon 'intelligence elsewhere', including the global South. This is partly because of intense interest in the Arab Spring and 'managed democracy', placing a wider range of secret services under the spotlight. However, the approach to research is still dominated by concepts and methods de…
Secrets, hostages, and ransoms
Britain has long taken a firm public line against terrorist ransom, insisting that yielding to terrorist demands only encourages further acts of intimidation and kidnapping. Hitherto, academic research has tended to take these assertions of piety at face value. This article uses a historical approach to show that the British position has shifted over time and was often more complex and pragmatic. Indeed, Britain’s position with regard to kidnap a…
Ambient accountability
In June 2013, Edward Snowden leaked remarkable details of numerous highly-classified surveillance programmes to the Washington Post and the Guardian, sparking an international furore. They revealed widespread collection against European citizens and monitoring of European premiers, notably Angela Merkel. The European media framed this episode around civil liberties, focusing upon ‘the end of privacy’ for the citizen. However, it is the contention…
Grey is the new black
For hundreds of years, states have sought to intervene in the affairs of others in a surreptitious manner. Since the professionalization of intelligence services in the aftermath of the Second World War, this behaviour has become known as covert action, which—for generations of scholars—has been defined as plausibly deniable intervention in the affairs of others; the sponsor's hand is neither apparent nor acknowledged. We challenge this orthodoxy…
The 100 billion dollar brain
The ‘Five Eyes’ alliance, led by the United States, spends close to 100 billion dollars a year on intelligence. This review article argues that western countries are distinguished by their sophisticated approach to the making of intelligence-led national security policy. Political leaders and policy-makers who access this sensitive material are often involved in elaborate systems that constitute part of the core executive and which seek to task a…
The red web
Journal Article The red web: the struggle between Russia's digital dictators and the new online revolutionaries. By Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan Get access The red web: the struggle between Russia's digital dictators and the new online revolutionaries. By Andrei Soldatovand Irina Borogan. New York: PublicAffairs. 2015. 350pp. Index. £15.80. ISBN 978 1 61039 573 1. Available as e-book. Richard J. Aldrich Richard J. Aldrich 1University of Warw…
A merican Journalism and the Landscape of Secrecy
The relationship between secret services and the press is an enduring one. Although the CIA did not seek the kind of salient media profile enjoyed by the FBI , it nevertheless maintained an informal press office from its foundation in 1947. Directors of the CIA and their senior staff devoted significant time to the public profile of the A gency. Their efforts to engage with the world of newspapers divided journalists. Some saw it as their patriot…
Kenneth Conboy. The Cambodian Wars
Journal Article Kenneth Conboy. The Cambodian Wars: Clashing Armies and CIA Covert Operations. Get access Kenneth Conboy. The Cambodian Wars: Clashing Armies and CIA Covert Operations. (Modern War Studies.) Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2013. Pp. xvii, 401. $39.95. Richard J. Aldrich Richard J. Aldrich University of Warwick [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Hist…
The Clandestine Cold War in Asia, 1945-65
A range of clandestine Cold War activities in Asia, from intelligence and propaganda to special operations and security support, is examined here. The contributions draw on newly-opened archives and a two-day conference on the subject
Counting the Cost of Intelligence
If one were to choose a few key words to describe the post-war British intelligence community, one of them might well be ‘impecunious’. Scarcity of resource affected the development of intelligence no less than it did British defence policy. Yet while we know much about the political economy of British defence planning, we know almost nothing about intelligence spending. This essay argues that senior Treasury figures were important in the develop…
Intelligence, Defence and Diplomacy
Whitehall wiring
Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) enjoys two main roles, signals intelligence and communications security. We know a great deal about signals intelligence but far less about the defensive security side of its activities. This article traces the development and growth of Britain’s communications security establishment as an unknown fourth British secret service during the 1950s and 1960s. This body was the antecedent of the C…
Escaping from American intelligence
The United States and its closest allies now spend over $100 billion a year on intelligence. Ten years after 9/11, the intelligence machine is certainly bigger—but not necessarily better. American intelligence continues to privilege old-fashioned strategic analysis for policy-makers and exhibits a technocratic approach to asymmetric security threats, epitomized by the accelerated use of drone strikes and data-mining. Distinguished commentators ha…
US–European Intelligence Co-Operation on Counter-Terrorism
Since 9/11, intelligence has been viewed as an integral part of a controversial ‘war on terror’. The acrimonious public arguments over subjects such as Iraqi WMD assessments, secret prisons and the interrogation of detainees suggest intense transatlantic discord. Yet improbably, some of those countries that have expressed strident disagreement in public are privately the closest intelligence partners. It is argued here that we can explain this se…
Introduction
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Beyond the vigilant state
The world of intelligence has grown exponentially over the last decade. This article suggests that prevailing explanation of this expansion – the spectre of ‘new terrorism’ – reflects serious misunderstandings. Much of the emergency legislation which has extended the power of the state so remarkably was already sitting in the pending trays of officials in the late 1990s. Instead, the rise of both the ‘new terrorism’ and its supposed nemesis – the…
Contending cultures of counterterrorism
Terrorist attacks on the United States, Spain and the United Kingdom have underlined the differing responses of Europe and the United States to the ‘new terrorism’. This article analyses these responses through the prism of historically determined strategic cultures. For the last four years the United States has directed the full resources of a ‘national security’ approach towards this threat and has emphasized unilateralism. Europe, based on its…
Grey is the new black
For hundreds of years, states have sought to intervene in the affairs of others in a surreptitious manner. Since the professionalization of intelligence services in the aftermath of the Second World War, this behaviour has become known as covert action, which—for generations of scholars—has been defined as plausibly deniable intervention in the affairs of others; the sponsor's hand is neither apparent nor acknowledged. We challenge this orthodoxy…
Delayed Disclosure
The significance of Edward Snowden’s revelations has been viewed primarily through the prism of threats to citizen privacy. Instead, we argue that the most dramatic change has been a decline of government secrecy, especially around national security. While the ethical aspects of state secrets and ‘whistle-blowing’ have received recent attention, few have attempted to explain the dynamics of this growing climate of exposure. Our argument is largel…
Transatlantic intelligence and security cooperation
Despite recent advances in transatlantic intelligence and security cooperation, significant problems remain. The bombings in Madrid in March 2004 have demonstrated how terrorists and criminals can continue to exploit the limits of hesitant or partial exchange to dangerous effect. Intelligence and security cooperation remain problematic because of the fundamental tension between an increasingly networked world, which is ideal terrain for the new r…
British intelligence and the Anglo-American ‘Special Relationship’ during the Cold War
Our present understanding of British intelligence and its relationship to Anglo-American cooperation in the postwar period leaves much to be desired. Indeed while it has often been remarked that the twin pillars of Anglo-American security cooperation were atomic weapons and intelligence exchange, there remains an alarming disparity in our understanding of these two areas. The importance of intelligence is often commented on, but rarely subjected …
US–European Intelligence Co-Operation on Counter-Terrorism
Since 9/11, intelligence has been viewed as an integral part of a controversial ‘war on terror’. The acrimonious public arguments over subjects such as Iraqi WMD assessments, secret prisons and the interrogation of detainees suggest intense transatlantic discord. Yet improbably, some of those countries that have expressed strident disagreement in public are privately the closest intelligence partners. It is argued here that we can explain this se…
Britain's Secret Intelligence Service in Asia During the Second World War
The past twenty years have seen the rapid growth of a new branch of international history, the serious academic study of secret services or 'intelligence history' with its attendant specialist conferences and journals. Two main causes for this development can be identified. The first was conceptual, namely the increasing recognition that the study of international history was greatly impoverished by the reluctance of academic historians to addres…
Secrecy, spies and the global South
The study of secrecy and spies remain subjects dominated by Anglo-American experiences. In recent years there has been some effort to refocus the lens of research upon 'intelligence elsewhere', including the global South. This is partly because of intense interest in the Arab Spring and 'managed democracy', placing a wider range of secret services under the spotlight. However, the approach to research is still dominated by concepts and methods de…
Ambient accountability
In June 2013, Edward Snowden leaked remarkable details of numerous highly-classified surveillance programmes to the Washington Post and the Guardian, sparking an international furore. They revealed widespread collection against European citizens and monitoring of European premiers, notably Angela Merkel. The European media framed this episode around civil liberties, focusing upon ‘the end of privacy’ for the citizen. However, it is the contention…
A merican Journalism and the Landscape of Secrecy
The relationship between secret services and the press is an enduring one. Although the CIA did not seek the kind of salient media profile enjoyed by the FBI , it nevertheless maintained an informal press office from its foundation in 1947. Directors of the CIA and their senior staff devoted significant time to the public profile of the A gency. Their efforts to engage with the world of newspapers divided journalists. Some saw it as their patriot…
Whitehall wiring
Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) enjoys two main roles, signals intelligence and communications security. We know a great deal about signals intelligence but far less about the defensive security side of its activities. This article traces the development and growth of Britain’s communications security establishment as an unknown fourth British secret service during the 1950s and 1960s. This body was the antecedent of the C…
Escaping from American intelligence
The United States and its closest allies now spend over $100 billion a year on intelligence. Ten years after 9/11, the intelligence machine is certainly bigger—but not necessarily better. American intelligence continues to privilege old-fashioned strategic analysis for policy-makers and exhibits a technocratic approach to asymmetric security threats, epitomized by the accelerated use of drone strikes and data-mining. Distinguished commentators ha…
Beyond the vigilant state
The world of intelligence has grown exponentially over the last decade. This article suggests that prevailing explanation of this expansion – the spectre of ‘new terrorism’ – reflects serious misunderstandings. Much of the emergency legislation which has extended the power of the state so remarkably was already sitting in the pending trays of officials in the late 1990s. Instead, the rise of both the ‘new terrorism’ and its supposed nemesis – the…
The Clandestine Cold War in Asia, 1945-65
The Secret Empire of Signals Intelligence
Why did Britain remove the population of an idyllic Indian Ocean archipelago? Why has Britain resisted granting citizenship to the inhabitants of another small island in the mid-Atlantic? Why does Britain still ‘own’ 90 square miles of Cyprus? The answer, we suggest, lies in part with the heritage of Bletchley Park, an obsession with informational dominance in world politics that demands the control of key nodes in international telecommunication…
The 100 billion dollar brain
The ‘Five Eyes’ alliance, led by the United States, spends close to 100 billion dollars a year on intelligence. This review article argues that western countries are distinguished by their sophisticated approach to the making of intelligence-led national security policy. Political leaders and policy-makers who access this sensitive material are often involved in elaborate systems that constitute part of the core executive and which seek to task a…
Intelligence within Baor and Nato's Northern Army Group
During the Cold War the UK's principal military role was its commitment to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) through the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR), together with wartime command of NATO's Northern Army Group. The possibility of a surprise attack by the numerically superior Warsaw Pact forces ensured that great importance was attached to intelligence, warning and rapid mobilisation. As yet we know very little about the intellige…
OSS, CIA and European unity
(1997). OSS, CIA and European unity: The American committee on United Europe, 1948–60. Diplomacy & Statecraft: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 184-227
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OSS, CIA and European unity
(1997). OSS, CIA and European unity: The American committee on United Europe, 1948–60. Diplomacy & Statecraft: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 184-227
British intelligence and the Anglo-American ‘Special Relationship’ during the Cold War
Our present understanding of British intelligence and its relationship to Anglo-American cooperation in the postwar period leaves much to be desired. Indeed while it has often been remarked that the twin pillars of Anglo-American security cooperation were atomic weapons and intelligence exchange, there remains an alarming disparity in our understanding of these two areas. The importance of intelligence is often commented on, but rarely subjected …
Britain's Secret Intelligence Service in Asia During the Second World War
The past twenty years have seen the rapid growth of a new branch of international history, the serious academic study of secret services or 'intelligence history' with its attendant specialist conferences and journals. Two main causes for this development can be identified. The first was conceptual, namely the increasing recognition that the study of international history was greatly impoverished by the reluctance of academic historians to addres…
The intelligence services in the Second World War
The Clandestine Cold War in Asia, 1945-65
The Clandestine War in Asia, 1945-65
Secret Messages
Intelligence history is a growing field. Where it used to be the domain of military historians and cryptanalytical specialists, it is now moving into the field of foreign relations and international history. While diplomatic historians are realizing that they can no longer ignore the dimension of intelligence, intelligence historians are increasingly placing their work into the broader context of international relations. Finally, following the Am…
Intelligence Test
Transatlantic intelligence and security cooperation
Despite recent advances in transatlantic intelligence and security cooperation, significant problems remain. The bombings in Madrid in March 2004 have demonstrated how terrorists and criminals can continue to exploit the limits of hesitant or partial exchange to dangerous effect. Intelligence and security cooperation remain problematic because of the fundamental tension between an increasingly networked world, which is ideal terrain for the new r…
Contending cultures of counterterrorism
Terrorist attacks on the United States, Spain and the United Kingdom have underlined the differing responses of Europe and the United States to the ‘new terrorism’. This article analyses these responses through the prism of historically determined strategic cultures. For the last four years the United States has directed the full resources of a ‘national security’ approach towards this threat and has emphasized unilateralism. Europe, based on its…
‘Even Had I Wanted To… ’
has produced a balanced, well-researched and meticulous account of the Falklands Campaign.It combines scholarship with a lightness of touch.Official history can be -and often is -associated with ponderousness.There is no danger of that here, for the two volumes are tightly written and constitute an enjoyable read.Freedman's long-term interest in this campaign means that he has interviewed most of the key participants, even those who died before h…
Intelligence within Baor and Nato's Northern Army Group
During the Cold War the UK's principal military role was its commitment to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) through the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR), together with wartime command of NATO's Northern Army Group. The possibility of a surprise attack by the numerically superior Warsaw Pact forces ensured that great importance was attached to intelligence, warning and rapid mobilisation. As yet we know very little about the intellige…
US–European Intelligence Co-Operation on Counter-Terrorism
Since 9/11, intelligence has been viewed as an integral part of a controversial ‘war on terror’. The acrimonious public arguments over subjects such as Iraqi WMD assessments, secret prisons and the interrogation of detainees suggest intense transatlantic discord. Yet improbably, some of those countries that have expressed strident disagreement in public are privately the closest intelligence partners. It is argued here that we can explain this se…
Introduction
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Beyond the vigilant state
The world of intelligence has grown exponentially over the last decade. This article suggests that prevailing explanation of this expansion – the spectre of ‘new terrorism’ – reflects serious misunderstandings. Much of the emergency legislation which has extended the power of the state so remarkably was already sitting in the pending trays of officials in the late 1990s. Instead, the rise of both the ‘new terrorism’ and its supposed nemesis – the…
Escaping from American intelligence
The United States and its closest allies now spend over $100 billion a year on intelligence. Ten years after 9/11, the intelligence machine is certainly bigger—but not necessarily better. American intelligence continues to privilege old-fashioned strategic analysis for policy-makers and exhibits a technocratic approach to asymmetric security threats, epitomized by the accelerated use of drone strikes and data-mining. Distinguished commentators ha…
The Clandestine Cold War in Asia, 1945-65
A range of clandestine Cold War activities in Asia, from intelligence and propaganda to special operations and security support, is examined here. The contributions draw on newly-opened archives and a two-day conference on the subject
Counting the Cost of Intelligence
If one were to choose a few key words to describe the post-war British intelligence community, one of them might well be ‘impecunious’. Scarcity of resource affected the development of intelligence no less than it did British defence policy. Yet while we know much about the political economy of British defence planning, we know almost nothing about intelligence spending. This essay argues that senior Treasury figures were important in the develop…
Intelligence, Defence and Diplomacy
Whitehall wiring
Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) enjoys two main roles, signals intelligence and communications security. We know a great deal about signals intelligence but far less about the defensive security side of its activities. This article traces the development and growth of Britain’s communications security establishment as an unknown fourth British secret service during the 1950s and 1960s. This body was the antecedent of the C…
Kenneth Conboy. The Cambodian Wars
Journal Article Kenneth Conboy. The Cambodian Wars: Clashing Armies and CIA Covert Operations. Get access Kenneth Conboy. The Cambodian Wars: Clashing Armies and CIA Covert Operations. (Modern War Studies.) Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2013. Pp. xvii, 401. $39.95. Richard J. Aldrich Richard J. Aldrich University of Warwick [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Hist…
The 100 billion dollar brain
The ‘Five Eyes’ alliance, led by the United States, spends close to 100 billion dollars a year on intelligence. This review article argues that western countries are distinguished by their sophisticated approach to the making of intelligence-led national security policy. Political leaders and policy-makers who access this sensitive material are often involved in elaborate systems that constitute part of the core executive and which seek to task a…
The red web
Journal Article The red web: the struggle between Russia's digital dictators and the new online revolutionaries. By Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan Get access The red web: the struggle between Russia's digital dictators and the new online revolutionaries. By Andrei Soldatovand Irina Borogan. New York: PublicAffairs. 2015. 350pp. Index. £15.80. ISBN 978 1 61039 573 1. Available as e-book. Richard J. Aldrich Richard J. Aldrich 1University of Warw…
A merican Journalism and the Landscape of Secrecy
The relationship between secret services and the press is an enduring one. Although the CIA did not seek the kind of salient media profile enjoyed by the FBI , it nevertheless maintained an informal press office from its foundation in 1947. Directors of the CIA and their senior staff devoted significant time to the public profile of the A gency. Their efforts to engage with the world of newspapers divided journalists. Some saw it as their patriot…
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