Welcome to the JMG History website, which is predominantly, but not exclusively, dedicated to the history involving the inter-relationships between state, science and warfare. This has been a particular fascination for the author of this website for many years, which has led to extensive research into this intriguing aspect of contemporary modern history.

This website provides glimpses into matters pertaining to the following investigations:

• How modern warfare was waged technologically – on land, sea, and in the air.
• How nation states sought to mobilise science and engineering to advance their chances of gaining initiative in modern wars.
• The desperate need to understand the scientific and technological capabilities of respective enemy nation states.
• How widespread industrialisation inevitably led to the realisation of Total War.
• How secret intelligence services emerged as central components to the waging of modern industrial warfare, and became highly technological in the process.
• The importance of (high-level and low-level) innovation in warfare.

There are sections for each of the last three centuries, each divided into sub-sections to cover the following categories:

• All of the major wars of each respective century.
• Political matters pertaining to S&T under the label of ‘Scientific Governance’.
• Science and Technology (S&T) which has contributed to, or has been stimulated by, modern warfare.
• Brief biographies of some of the key individuals who contributed to state-motivated or war-inspired S&T developments.

There is a special section dedicated to the twentieth century phenomenon of Scientific Intelligence, which is the author’s specialist subject. This also includes discussion on the lesser-known Technical Intelligence, and covers all aspects of scientific and technological intelligence-gathering and all varying methods of intelligence collection and collation – including Signals Intelligence, photographic reconnaissance and interpretation, interrogations of POWs and émigrés, and secret agent reports.

Finally, there is a section covering reviews and recommendations of publications relating to the history of state, science, technology, secret intelligence, and warfare.