Abstract

ABSTRACT This paper analyses the Admiralty’s Monthly Intelligence Report for the opening period of the Cold War. The sources reveal how the Service adjusted to East-West confrontation. A picture emerges of an organisation gradually adapting to a new geopolitical reality, particularly the differences between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union as maritime adversaries. Despite growing geopolitical tension, only in 1948 following the Corfu Channel incident and Soviet takeovers in Eastern Europe did Monthly Intelligence Report declare the Cold War as the new status quo.

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