Story by Lori Stewart | U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence | 04.26.2024
On 3 May 1917, the War Department established a Military Intelligence Section (MIS) in the War College to handle intelligence policy and planning as the U.S. prepared to enter World War I. Spearheaded primarily by Maj. Ralph Van Deman, the MIS morphed into the Military Intelligence Division on the War Department General Staff by the end of the war. For his efforts to establish the first......
Courtesy Story | U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence | 07.21.2023
In July 1943, the Army’s Military Intelligence Service published the second edition of its Italian order of battle. The purpose of the 311-page booklet was “to furnish intelligence officers with a detailed picture of the basic composition and disposition of the Italian Army.”...
