A War of Information

Spanish Naval Intelligence During the American Revolutionary War (1775–83)

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ID12309311
AuthorsPablo Ortega Del Cerro (0000-0002-4011-7225, University of Cadiz, Cadiz, Spain, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume30
Issue3
Pages235-256
Publication date2022-05-16
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueWar in History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0968-3445 • E-ISSN: 1477-0385
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/09683445221078058
OpenAlexW4280538813
LanguageEN
Citations received4

Early-Modern war absorbed large material resources, including manpower, warships, guns, ammunition and supplies, but there was one key element of warfare that was quite immaterial: information. This article analyses Spanish naval intelligence and deals with the production, collection, and management of information within and through the navy. To examine this complex issue this paper will focus on the Spanish naval intelligence system during the American Revolutionary War (1776–83). By the 1770s and the 1780s the Spanish navy had developed and improved an efficient framework that provided decisive information for the mobilisation of its naval forces

Aeronautics · Ammunition · Archaeology · Computer security · Economics · Element (criminal law · Focus (optics · Information Warfare · Key (lock · Management · Military intelligence · Navy · Operations research · Political science · Spanish Civil War · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Computer Science · Engineering · Historical Studies in Latin America · Historical Studies on Spain · History · Law

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