Philip Hj Davies
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4128417 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Philip Hj Davies |
| PRENOMES | Philip Hj |
| SOBRENOME | Davies |
| ASSINATURA | DAVIES P H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Brunel University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3820-8862 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 79 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1979 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The FAN TAN file
This article examines an interval during 1970–1971 during which the Canadian Federal government established a clandestine body codenamed FAN TAN within the Prime Minister’s Office to conduct surveillance of, and ‘political action’ against, the Quebec separatist movement. This organization, led by Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister Marc Lalonde, sought to persuade the Security Service of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to provide intellig…
Counterintelligence and escalation from hybrid to total war in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict 2014–2024
This article examines certain counterintelligence (CI) aspects of the on-going conflict between Russia and Ukraine since 2014 in terms of key problems in current western CI concepts, doctrine and processes. It examines not only the CI threat to Ukraine during the Donbas ‘frozen war’ and 2022 invasion from the traditional CI triad of espionage, sabotage and subversion but also from Russian intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabi…
Intelligence warning in the Ukraine war, Autumn 2021 – Summer 2022
Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 is a unique case study of the use of warning intelligence.The article shows that whilst Russia's invasion has sparked a wave of interest on aspects of intelligence, including the use of open source and 'prebuttal', the fundamentals of warning intelligencethe forewarning of major threats in a timely manner so policymakers and officials can respond -remain the same as they have always have.The article a…
The trouble with Tessoc
This article examines the evolution of UK military doctrine on counterintelligence (CI), one of the more consistently troubled aspects of military doctrine in general and intelligence doctrine in particular. We argue that current UK and NATO CI doctrine are in thrall to a deeply problematic defining concept in TESSOC (Terrorism, Espionage, Sabotage, Subversion and Organised Crime) that conflates an intractably diverse assortment of security threa…
Oversight and governance of the Danish intelligence community
The study of intelligence communities, and oversight thereof, outside the English-speaking world remains relatively underdeveloped. One of the most instructive cases the Danish intelligence community and its oversight architecture. Denmark conforms to neither the ‘big bang’ of intelligence oversight during the 1970s and 1980s nor to subsequent security sector reform (SSR) amongst so-called ‘new democracies’ beyond broadly following Loch Johnson’s…
Ken Robertson 1947–2021
ISR versus Istar
Between 2009 and 2011, there was an intense debate in UK, Canadian, and Australian military intelligence circles regarding two putatively competing doctrinal concepts, the U.S.-originated “intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance” and the United Kingdom’s “intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance.” The inclusion, or not, of target acquisition proved a flashpoint for a wider and deeper range of existing concerns abo…
Intelligence, Policy, and the Mandate
Copyright © 2021 The Author(s). There is a popular aphorism in the intelligence world that ‘there are only intelligence failures and policy successes’ (Jervis, 2010, p. 157). It is an observation with telling resonances on many different levels. It captures the sense among intelligence practitioners that in the best of all possible worlds, the ultimate goal of intelligence is to enable the formation of sound and successful policy. The self-intere…
All in Good Faith? Proximity, Politicization, and Malaysia’s External Intelligence Organization
On 9 May 2018 Malaysia provided one of the most compelling demonstrations of the power of the secret ballot ever seen.In the country's 14 th General Election, colloquially referred to a GE14, the incumbent and highly controversial Prime Minister Najib Razak 3 , his party the United Malay National Organisation (UMNO) and its associated, multi-ethnic coalition Barisan Nasional (BN, 'National Front') were soundly ousted from power.UMNO/BN had
Intelligence and military doctrine
This article examines the evolution of the current British military joint intelligence doctrine. We argue that military intelligence doctrine is dogged by an intrinsic tension between the ethos and expectations of military doctrine and those of the professional practice of intelligence. We further argue not only that prior iterations of UK joint intelligence doctrine failed to effectively deal with this intelligence doctrine dilemma, but also tha…
Rethinking the Rise and Fall of the Malayan Security Service, 1946–48
An item of conventional wisdom in our understanding of the Malayan First Emergency is that the original security organisation, the Malayan Security Service (MSS), was a comprehensive failure, prompting its dissolution and replacement with the Malayan Special Branch. This article challenges that orthodoxy, arguing first that MSS actually produced accurate assessments of Malayan Communist capabilities and intentions prior to 1948 although the actua…
Step Changes and Learning Curves in the History of British Intelligence
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Special issue
Defence intelligence in the UK after the Mountbatten reforms
This article examines the establishment and evolution of the UK’s Defence Intelligence organisation (DI) from 1963 until the present date. It does so in terms of theories and concepts concerning the organisation of intelligence agencies and communities. The argument is made that DI was originally set up with a mandate to both undertake intelligence analysis on a joint service basis and coordinate the intelligence activities and appreciations of t…
Twilight of Britain's Joint Intelligence Committee
In the last few years, a number of significant, and often troubling, changes to the top-level management structure of the United Kingdom’s (UK) national intelligence machinery have taken place. The conventional understanding of the British system is that, since the dark days of the Blitz, the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) has provided a continuously operating, tried and true apparatus for coordinating and managing Britain’s national intellig…
The Missing Dimension’s Missing Dimension
Intelligence and the Machinery of Government
This article argues that the failure to address intelligence agencies as public organizations part and parcel with the overt machinery of government constitutes a significant lacuna both in the specialist study of intelligence and the broader discipline of public administration studies. The role and status of intelligence institutions as aspects of the machinery of central government is examined, along with the prospects of certain key paradigms …
Introduction
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Imagery in the UK
This article examines the status, role and development of imagery intelligence in the UK government. It is argued that imagery intelligence occupies a subordinate and marginalised position compared to other forms of intelligence, chiefly from human sources and the interception of communications. The origins of that position are recounted, and the problems arising from internal struggles over control of imagery examined. It is concluded that the e…
Assessment Base
Additional informationNotes on contributorsPhilip H. J. DaviesDr. Philip H. J. Davies is Deputy Director and Director of Studies at the Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, England. A political sociologist specializing in the institutional development of national intelligence agencies and communities, he cofounded the Centre in 2003 with Professor Anthony Glees. Dr. Davies's volume, MI-6 and the Ma…
Intelligence culture and intelligence failure in Britain and the United States
This article argues for the value of a theory of ‘intelligence culture’ in understanding not only how national intelligence systems work but also how intelligence failures occur in those systems. A model of national intelligence cultures in the governments of the United Kingdom and United States of America is developed combining existing work on organisational culture in the two countries with the author's comparative analysis of different concep…
Spies as Informants
This article examines the application of ‘triangulation’ to the use of elite interviewing in political science, with specific reference to the study of the intelligence and security services. It is argued that the problems involved in using elite interviews in security and intelligence studies are no different than in other areas of political science, but simply more pronounced. It is further argued that these problems can be most effectively add…
MI 6’s Requirements Directorate
The following article examines the relationship between the British Secret Intelli‐gence Service (SIS, a.k.a. MI 6) and the machinery of central government, particularly departments of state and other agencies which employ information generated by the SIS. It is argued the main link between the SIS and its consumers in British government is the SIS’s requirements ‘side’, embodied throughout most of the post‐war era in the form of a Requirements D…
Information Warfare and the Future of the Spy
This article examines the impact of the new ICTs on the collection of covert intelligence and covert political actions undertaken by national intelligence agencies. It is argued that there exist two distinct doctrines in the literatures of intelligence and information warfare concerning the future relative importance of information from human sources ('agents') and technical methods (signal interception, overhead imagery and the emerging field of…
Public Lending Right Act 1979
Spies as Informants
This article examines the application of ‘triangulation’ to the use of elite interviewing in political science, with specific reference to the study of the intelligence and security services. It is argued that the problems involved in using elite interviews in security and intelligence studies are no different than in other areas of political science, but simply more pronounced. It is further argued that these problems can be most effectively add…
Intelligence culture and intelligence failure in Britain and the United States
This article argues for the value of a theory of ‘intelligence culture’ in understanding not only how national intelligence systems work but also how intelligence failures occur in those systems. A model of national intelligence cultures in the governments of the United Kingdom and United States of America is developed combining existing work on organisational culture in the two countries with the author's comparative analysis of different concep…
MI 6’s Requirements Directorate
The following article examines the relationship between the British Secret Intelli‐gence Service (SIS, a.k.a. MI 6) and the machinery of central government, particularly departments of state and other agencies which employ information generated by the SIS. It is argued the main link between the SIS and its consumers in British government is the SIS’s requirements ‘side’, embodied throughout most of the post‐war era in the form of a Requirements D…
Intelligence and the Machinery of Government
This article argues that the failure to address intelligence agencies as public organizations part and parcel with the overt machinery of government constitutes a significant lacuna both in the specialist study of intelligence and the broader discipline of public administration studies. The role and status of intelligence institutions as aspects of the machinery of central government is examined, along with the prospects of certain key paradigms …
Imagery in the UK
This article examines the status, role and development of imagery intelligence in the UK government. It is argued that imagery intelligence occupies a subordinate and marginalised position compared to other forms of intelligence, chiefly from human sources and the interception of communications. The origins of that position are recounted, and the problems arising from internal struggles over control of imagery examined. It is concluded that the e…
Intelligence and military doctrine
This article examines the evolution of the current British military joint intelligence doctrine. We argue that military intelligence doctrine is dogged by an intrinsic tension between the ethos and expectations of military doctrine and those of the professional practice of intelligence. We further argue not only that prior iterations of UK joint intelligence doctrine failed to effectively deal with this intelligence doctrine dilemma, but also tha…
Rethinking the Rise and Fall of the Malayan Security Service, 1946–48
An item of conventional wisdom in our understanding of the Malayan First Emergency is that the original security organisation, the Malayan Security Service (MSS), was a comprehensive failure, prompting its dissolution and replacement with the Malayan Special Branch. This article challenges that orthodoxy, arguing first that MSS actually produced accurate assessments of Malayan Communist capabilities and intentions prior to 1948 although the actua…
Step Changes and Learning Curves in the History of British Intelligence
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
The Missing Dimension’s Missing Dimension
Public Lending Right Act 1979
Information Warfare and the Future of the Spy
This article examines the impact of the new ICTs on the collection of covert intelligence and covert political actions undertaken by national intelligence agencies. It is argued that there exist two distinct doctrines in the literatures of intelligence and information warfare concerning the future relative importance of information from human sources ('agents') and technical methods (signal interception, overhead imagery and the emerging field of…
MI 6’s Requirements Directorate
The following article examines the relationship between the British Secret Intelli‐gence Service (SIS, a.k.a. MI 6) and the machinery of central government, particularly departments of state and other agencies which employ information generated by the SIS. It is argued the main link between the SIS and its consumers in British government is the SIS’s requirements ‘side’, embodied throughout most of the post‐war era in the form of a Requirements D…
Spies as Informants
This article examines the application of ‘triangulation’ to the use of elite interviewing in political science, with specific reference to the study of the intelligence and security services. It is argued that the problems involved in using elite interviews in security and intelligence studies are no different than in other areas of political science, but simply more pronounced. It is further argued that these problems can be most effectively add…
Intelligence culture and intelligence failure in Britain and the United States
This article argues for the value of a theory of ‘intelligence culture’ in understanding not only how national intelligence systems work but also how intelligence failures occur in those systems. A model of national intelligence cultures in the governments of the United Kingdom and United States of America is developed combining existing work on organisational culture in the two countries with the author's comparative analysis of different concep…
Assessment Base
Additional informationNotes on contributorsPhilip H. J. DaviesDr. Philip H. J. Davies is Deputy Director and Director of Studies at the Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, England. A political sociologist specializing in the institutional development of national intelligence agencies and communities, he cofounded the Centre in 2003 with Professor Anthony Glees. Dr. Davies's volume, MI-6 and the Ma…
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
Imagery in the UK
This article examines the status, role and development of imagery intelligence in the UK government. It is argued that imagery intelligence occupies a subordinate and marginalised position compared to other forms of intelligence, chiefly from human sources and the interception of communications. The origins of that position are recounted, and the problems arising from internal struggles over control of imagery examined. It is concluded that the e…
The Missing Dimension’s Missing Dimension
Intelligence and the Machinery of Government
This article argues that the failure to address intelligence agencies as public organizations part and parcel with the overt machinery of government constitutes a significant lacuna both in the specialist study of intelligence and the broader discipline of public administration studies. The role and status of intelligence institutions as aspects of the machinery of central government is examined, along with the prospects of certain key paradigms …
Twilight of Britain's Joint Intelligence Committee
In the last few years, a number of significant, and often troubling, changes to the top-level management structure of the United Kingdom’s (UK) national intelligence machinery have taken place. The conventional understanding of the British system is that, since the dark days of the Blitz, the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) has provided a continuously operating, tried and true apparatus for coordinating and managing Britain’s national intellig…
Step Changes and Learning Curves in the History of British Intelligence
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
Special issue
Defence intelligence in the UK after the Mountbatten reforms
This article examines the establishment and evolution of the UK’s Defence Intelligence organisation (DI) from 1963 until the present date. It does so in terms of theories and concepts concerning the organisation of intelligence agencies and communities. The argument is made that DI was originally set up with a mandate to both undertake intelligence analysis on a joint service basis and coordinate the intelligence activities and appreciations of t…
Rethinking the Rise and Fall of the Malayan Security Service, 1946–48
An item of conventional wisdom in our understanding of the Malayan First Emergency is that the original security organisation, the Malayan Security Service (MSS), was a comprehensive failure, prompting its dissolution and replacement with the Malayan Special Branch. This article challenges that orthodoxy, arguing first that MSS actually produced accurate assessments of Malayan Communist capabilities and intentions prior to 1948 although the actua…
Intelligence and military doctrine
This article examines the evolution of the current British military joint intelligence doctrine. We argue that military intelligence doctrine is dogged by an intrinsic tension between the ethos and expectations of military doctrine and those of the professional practice of intelligence. We further argue not only that prior iterations of UK joint intelligence doctrine failed to effectively deal with this intelligence doctrine dilemma, but also tha…
All in Good Faith? Proximity, Politicization, and Malaysia’s External Intelligence Organization
On 9 May 2018 Malaysia provided one of the most compelling demonstrations of the power of the secret ballot ever seen.In the country's 14 th General Election, colloquially referred to a GE14, the incumbent and highly controversial Prime Minister Najib Razak 3 , his party the United Malay National Organisation (UMNO) and its associated, multi-ethnic coalition Barisan Nasional (BN, 'National Front') were soundly ousted from power.UMNO/BN had
Intelligence, Policy, and the Mandate
Copyright © 2021 The Author(s). There is a popular aphorism in the intelligence world that ‘there are only intelligence failures and policy successes’ (Jervis, 2010, p. 157). It is an observation with telling resonances on many different levels. It captures the sense among intelligence practitioners that in the best of all possible worlds, the ultimate goal of intelligence is to enable the formation of sound and successful policy. The self-intere…
Oversight and governance of the Danish intelligence community
The study of intelligence communities, and oversight thereof, outside the English-speaking world remains relatively underdeveloped. One of the most instructive cases the Danish intelligence community and its oversight architecture. Denmark conforms to neither the ‘big bang’ of intelligence oversight during the 1970s and 1980s nor to subsequent security sector reform (SSR) amongst so-called ‘new democracies’ beyond broadly following Loch Johnson’s…
Ken Robertson 1947–2021
ISR versus Istar
Between 2009 and 2011, there was an intense debate in UK, Canadian, and Australian military intelligence circles regarding two putatively competing doctrinal concepts, the U.S.-originated “intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance” and the United Kingdom’s “intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance.” The inclusion, or not, of target acquisition proved a flashpoint for a wider and deeper range of existing concerns abo…
The FAN TAN file
This article examines an interval during 1970–1971 during which the Canadian Federal government established a clandestine body codenamed FAN TAN within the Prime Minister’s Office to conduct surveillance of, and ‘political action’ against, the Quebec separatist movement. This organization, led by Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister Marc Lalonde, sought to persuade the Security Service of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to provide intellig…
Counterintelligence and escalation from hybrid to total war in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict 2014–2024
This article examines certain counterintelligence (CI) aspects of the on-going conflict between Russia and Ukraine since 2014 in terms of key problems in current western CI concepts, doctrine and processes. It examines not only the CI threat to Ukraine during the Donbas ‘frozen war’ and 2022 invasion from the traditional CI triad of espionage, sabotage and subversion but also from Russian intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabi…
Intelligence warning in the Ukraine war, Autumn 2021 – Summer 2022
Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 is a unique case study of the use of warning intelligence.The article shows that whilst Russia's invasion has sparked a wave of interest on aspects of intelligence, including the use of open source and 'prebuttal', the fundamentals of warning intelligencethe forewarning of major threats in a timely manner so policymakers and officials can respond -remain the same as they have always have.The article a…
The trouble with Tessoc
This article examines the evolution of UK military doctrine on counterintelligence (CI), one of the more consistently troubled aspects of military doctrine in general and intelligence doctrine in particular. We argue that current UK and NATO CI doctrine are in thrall to a deeply problematic defining concept in TESSOC (Terrorism, Espionage, Sabotage, Subversion and Organised Crime) that conflates an intractably diverse assortment of security threa…
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