A recommended study of British naval intelligence examines decision-making during technical change. Interwar intelligence work depended on collecting information and on storing and circulating it securely. A navy could decline to collect material that it lacked the means to protect, allowing security constraints to shape the evidence available to planners. Japanese amphibious capability is one example raised by this problem. Intelligence practice therefore forms part of the difficulty in reconstructing specialist landing forces.
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Why interwar naval intelligence sometimes declined to collect material
A research aside explains how limited information security shaped what navies could collect and retain about foreign technical and amphibious capabilities.