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Finding sources on American naval intelligence

Office of Naval Intelligence War Notes and Notes on Naval Progress provide research leads when no single American counterpart to Boyd's broad history is identified.

Question

Is there an American counterpart to Andrew Boyd's history of British naval intelligence?

Short answer

No single work of equivalent scope is identified with confidence; Office of Naval Intelligence War Notes and the 1900 Notes on Naval Progress are suggested instead.

Notes

Andrew Boyd's British naval-intelligence history prompts a search for an American counterpart with similar scope. No single equivalent is identified with confidence. Office of Naval Intelligence publications offer another route, particularly the War Notes series. Notes on Naval Progress, published in 1900, is another specific research lead. These publications provide useful starting points while leaving the question of a comparably broad institutional history open.