Encapsulated World History
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Espionage
A History of the Japanese Secret Service by Richard Deacon
A History of the British Secret Service by Richard Deacon
Sun Tzu is said to have stated a fundamental principle of warfare. To defeat the enemy, psychologically is the superior strategy. To defeat the enemy militarily is the inferior strategy. (Deacon 1).
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Deacon - (45) Koki Hirota : theme in Japanese foreign policy making was that the world should be divided into thre sphere: American, European and Japanese.
Deacon (53) When the Russo-Japanese War started on Feb 8, 1904, no army or navy in modern history had ever been so superbly backed up with a massive advance intelligence operation. Captain Malcolm D. Kennedy ... observed that one of the great features of Japanese strategy and grand tactics in thieir war with Russia was the secrecy observed and the false information circulated purposely.
Deacon (60) Japanese naval intelligence also upheld the code of bushido which laid down that spying was an honourable and highly patriotic duty and because of this there was no shortage of volunteers among naval officers to obtain information on the Russian fleet.
Deacon (79) The Japanese grasped two of the basic principles ... the need to centralise control, and the other is that any intelligence system must be put out on the ground and made fully operational long before any shooting starts.
The Japanese decided that something like total espionage was essential if they were to consolidate their position as an emerging world power.