Historians Keith Bird and Jason Hines join the program to discuss the development of wireless telegraphy on warships, British use of wireless command-and-control, the oft-neglected German Naval Intelligence failures in the First World War, and the encryption war at sea, all part of their award-winning 2018 paper In the Shadow of Ultra: A Reappraisal of German Naval Communications Intelligence in 1914-1918.
Links:
1. In the Shadow of Ultra: A Reappraisal of German Naval Communications Intelligence in 1914-1918
2. Very Special Intelligence: The Story of the Admiralty’s Operational Intelligence Centre 1939-1945
3.Room 40: British Naval Intelligence, 1914–1918
5. Technology, Shipbuilding and Future Combat in Germany, 1880-1914.”
6. Sins of Omission and Commission: A Reassessment of the Role of Intelligence in the Battle of Jutland
7. Ludwig Föppl: A Bavarian Cryptanalyst on the Western Front