Christos military and intelligence corner

I think I’ve written some very interesting essays this year. I covered WWII cryptology, wrote about spies and intelligence operations, pre...

I’ve written a lot about how the M-138-A strip cipher was used ( and misused ) by the US State Department during WWII. Time for a chal...

Site antipodeanarmour has uploaded the report ‘ Centurion Tanks in Korea - Report by Lt J Brown RNZAC March 1952 ’ (originally found throug...

From the mid 1930’s the German Armed forces started using the  plugboard Enigma  as their main crypto system. The Enigma has received a lo...

I added information on the German exploitation of the codes of British liaison officers sent to occupied Yugoslavia in The secret messages...

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The NSA and GCHQ intercept and record all communications in order to protect ‘the people’ from evil terrorists. The Guardian reveals tha...