دانلود کتاب Intelligence Activities in Ancient Rome: Trust in the Gods but Verify (Studies in Intelligence)

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Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Maps and illustrations
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the author
Chronology
List of abbreviations
Part I: The Republic
Introduction: intelligence ancient and modern
1. Trust in the gods, but verify
Intelligence and religion
Scouting and reconnaissance
Sources: prisoners, traitors, deserters, and exiles
Spies
Diversion, deception, and disinformation
Rome in transition
Notes
2. Rome conquers Italy: methods and motives
Military intelligence 509–264 BC
Spies and scouts
Transmission
New institutions
Colonies and intelligence
Strategic intelligence and foreign policy
Deception, stratagem, deceit, subterfuge
The early and middle Republic
Notes
3. Hannibal\'s spies
Hannibal\'s war
Intelligence and psychological warfare
The road to defeat
The war moves to Africa
Winning the battles but losing the war
Notes
4. Diplomat, trader, messenger, client, spy: Rome\'s eyes and ears in the East
Diplomats
Traders
Messengers
Clientelae
Rome\'s eyes and ears
Notes
5. The high price of failure: Crassus and the Parthians
The peaceful Parthians
The Roman invasion
The Battle of Carrhae
Notes
6. Caesar goes to Britain
The target
Planning considerations
Clearing the English Channel
Embarkation
The arrival
The invasion, 54 BC
The pursuit
Success or failure?
Notes
7. Julius Caesar and the end of the Roman Republic
Scouts and reconnaissance
Spies and espionage
Traitors, prisoners of war, and deserters
Nonmilitary sources: ambassadors, diplomats, merchants, and aristocrats
Communications security: codes, ciphers, secret messages, and transmission
Defensive counterintelligence: Installation security
Operations security and censorship
Offensive counterintelligence: Deception
Psychological operations
Speed
Learning tradecraft
Caesar and the end of the Republic
Notes
Part II: The Empire
8. The Augustan revolution: communications and internal security
The cursus publicus
Geographical intelligence
Internal security
Private spies: the delatores
The vigiles
The army as police
Security in the provinces
Censorship
The Augustan system and the loss of liberty
Notes
9. Roman military intelligence
Speculatores
Exploratores
Allies as intelligence sources
Notes
10. Intelligence systems failure: the slaughter of Varus in the Teutoburgerwald
Publius Quinctilius Varus
Arminius: Hermann the German
The setting
The location
The evidence
The reconstructed narrative
Miscalculations
The results
Notes
11. Transmission and signaling
Messages by courier
Fire and smoke signals
Codes
Semaphore
Hadrian\'s wall: the stanegate phase
Hadrian\'s wall: the wall fort phase
Hadrian\'s wall: the outpost forts
Cumberland coast defenses
Stainmore Pass
Gask ridge system
Antonine wall
Intelligence on the British frontier
Wetterau Limes
Northern Zone
Southern Zone
Upper German-Raetian border
Ongoing research
Roman SIGINT
Notes
12. The Roman secret service
Origins of the frumentarii
Recruitment
Duties
Their demise
Notes
13. Big brother is watching you
Agentes in rebus
The notarii
State security and the emperor
Foreign intelligence: the governor\'s officium
Intelligence from allies
Breakdown of the system
Notes
14. Epilogue
Internal security
The Senate
Communications
Roman intelligence: success or failure?
Notes
Select bibliography
Index