What is it about?
As the Second World War progressed, the German military intelligence service (Abwehr) responded in various ways to a rapidly changing landscape engendered by military occupation, overseas deployment, geographical distance, enemy activity, and imminent defeat. Intelligence historians should now examine the Abwehr's response in geospatial terms with the aid of historical geographic information systems (HGIS).
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Why is it important?
This is a pioneering interdisciplinary enquiry into the potential application of geospatial methodology to intelligence history.
Perspectives
Why, with widely available GIS technology now at their disposal, do most historians continue to rely on unillustrated text to narrate and analyse history? Besides military historians who love their maps, few scholars include even static maps in their studies, let alone dynamic geospatial visualisations. Just asking.
Professor Adrian O'Sullivan
Bishop Grosseteste University
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This page is a summary of: Landscapes of intelligence in the Third Reich: visualising Abwehr operations during the Second World War, Journal of Intelligence History, September 2020, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/16161262.2020.1801018.
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