“Few people are as uniquely well equipped as Anthony Wells to write an account of these close and special relationships. His penetrating and informed analysis offers us all hope for the continuance of an alliance which makes the world a safer place." - VICE ADMIRAL SIR JEREMY BLACKHAM, Knight Commander of the Bath, editor, The Naval Review UK-US intelligence and the wider Five Eyes community of Canada, Australia and New Zealand is primarily about one main thing, relationships. In this remarkable book, Anthony Wells charts fifty years of change, turmoil, intense challenges, successes and failures, and never-ending abiding UK-US and Five Eyes relationships. He traces the development of institutions that he firmly believes have sustained and indeed may have saved the free world, Western democracies and their allies from those ill disposed to the value system and culture of our nations. More than a chronology of the UK-US intelligence community during this fifty-year period, it is also a personal insight into key relationships and how the abiding strengthof the United States and the United Kingdom and its Five Eyes allies relationships. The author has relied on his own extensive unclassified collection of papers, personal notes, diaries, as well as his family library for source material to create this book.
Author(s): Anthony R Wells
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 256
City: Oxford
Contents
Dedication
Foreword by Lord West
Introduction
Chapter 1 Foundations of the UK–US Special Relationship, 1968–74
Chapter 2 Challenges from the Soviet Union, 1974–78
Chapter 3 Political and Structural Changes, 1978–83
Chapter 4 The Special Relationship at its Best, 1983–2001
Chapter 5 September 11, 2001 and its Aftermath
Chapter 6 Intelligence Roles, Missions, and Operations, 1990–2018
Chapter 7 Current and Emerging Threats
Chapter 8 The Five Eyes Community in the 21st Century
Appendix Influential Individuals and Mentors
Glossary
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
