An Analysis Of Military Intelligence In The Tang Dynasty

Military intelligence for strategy and even war who lived in ages past, has very important significance, the Tang Dynasty is no exception. Military intelligence has a long history of development, to the Tang Dynasty, has been fairly perfect and formed its own characteristics. The development of the military intelligence flow in the Tang Dynasty, played a major role in the early stage of the war, and have deep influence on after the tang dynasty imperial military intelligence work. Military intelligence involves many aspects, through the study of the Tang Dynasty military intelligence, can make us a more comprehensive understanding of Tang Dynasty, and provide the reference for the current military intelligence work.This paper mainly focused on specific application of intelligence in the military, so as to explore many aspects of the Tang Dynasty military intelligence.This paper consists of six chapters:The first chapter discusses the definition of military intelligence as well as Tang Dynasty emperor and the minister’s attitude to military intelligence work. The main is to collect the existing research results, A clear definition of military intelligence will attained based on the analysis summary.Through the analysis of the Tang Dynasty famous battles, we can see that the early stage of Tang Dynasty and later rulers of military intelligence value degree difference is bigger, and in the later Tang Dynasty military blunder.The second chapter studies the tang dynasty military intelligence spying. Firstly, About the selection to intelligence, between people and objects and treatment of the problem, due to the particularity of intelligence work, has a strict standard on the choice of these people in the tang dynasty, such as Lijing and Duyou, based on inheriting the grandson argued, have put forward their unique insight, the main criteria is wisdom, eloquence, and loyalty. The treatment is also the most generous, in addition to property, they are granted official positions and the title who to make a significant contribution in terms of intelligence.secondly, about obtaining intelligence, this paper mainly discusses the main contents of intelligence,how to gather intelligence and the main ways and means in the war, so as to show a outstanding intelligence work in tang dynasty plays a major role in the war.The third chapter mainly studies military intelligence transmission and security. There are mainly two kinds of conventional and special transfer mode, reflect the intelligence transmission flexibility in Tang Dynasty; About secrecy, intelligence officer’s identity and intelligence content are highly secretive, it can greatly improve the efficiency of intelligence work. At the same time, the secrecy has formed its own characteristics in Tang Dynasty. Besides, the paper discusses the rewards and punishment on military law in the Tang dynasty. The law of Tang Dynasty is quite perfect, the law about the incident of reward and punishment measures to effectively prevent the occurrence of the leak in the tang dynasty, ensure the safety of the national military intelligence.The fifth chapter studies the role of military intelligence in war and its influence. Intelligence war is always a part of the war, it plays an important role in every link of the war. The late Tang Dynasty, a fierce intelligence war appeared between the buffer region and the court, the influence to the central government is also quite big, the buffer region take advantage of intelligence war, It makes the control of the central government was declined.In conclusion, on the base of summarizing the dissertation, it further concludes that one is about the basic features and characteristics of Tang Dynasty military intelligence; Second, The rulers of the cognition difference is very big about the importance of military intelligence in different periods of the Tang Dynasty; third, it is military intelligence work status and influence of the Tang dynasty. The military intelligence work have the high status in the Tang Dynasty history of warfare, It has the profound influence in the relationship between the tang and the surrounding minority regime and the Song Dynasty military intelligence work.Based on the previous research findings, through a large number of ancient books in the Tang Dynasty and the famous battles in this paper, it analysized the specific use of military intelligence during the war, it undertake a comprehensive study of the Tang Dynasty military intelligence, from military intelligence spying、intelligence transmission security and privacy、 the rewards and punishment related to military intelligence from the law and military intelligence influence, etc.