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SAVAŞ STRATEJİSİNDE İSTİHBARATIN ÖNEMİ
THE IMPORTANCE OF INTELLIGENCE IN WAR STRATEGY

Author(s): Emre Çıtak
Subject(s): Security and defense, Military policy
Published by: Bingöl Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü
Keywords: War; Strategy; Intelligence; War Strategy; Nature of War;

Summary/Abstract: In spite of all the struggle and movement of thoughts put forth, continuously occurring wars force states to be ready for the possibility of war at anytime. Within the situations war is an obligation, it is important to set forth proper strategies to win it. Even though war strategies were handled in just military terms, they have reached a multidimensional structure containing military, political, economic, social, technological fields because of the changing nature of the wars at the present day. Identity of fighting sides, battlefields, methods, duration of war, enemy-friend perception, weapons and vehicles have undergone a great transformation. Many types of war have been added on agenda besides hot conflicts. Thus a new understanding of war has emerged. In the light of developments in the field of war it has to be told that formulating the war strategy presents a really hard challenge to states as it has never been before. While doing this, states get the greatest benefit from intelligence. Intelligence fulfills the duties which are so beneficial in determining war strategies such as collecting information about self and others, assessing capacities of the sides, identifying present and potential threats and sources of threats, making predictions about place and time of potential wars and conflicts, doing preventive activities. For these reasons, quality of national intelligence plays a highly decisive role in winning the war. In this work, first of all, such concepts as war, strategy and intelligence will be studied in general terms. After that, changing nature or both war and war strategy will be analyzed and the importance of intelligence in war strategy will be dealt in this sense. The article will try to put forth the role intelligence plays in strategy-making befittingly with new war understanding. The basis of the study is how the intelligence became a weapon in the changing understanding of war and the value of the related activities in the prevention of the threat of obscurity in strategy making in this process.

  • Issue Year: 9/2019
  • Issue No: 18
  • Page Range: 775-798
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Turkish