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• Military reconnaissance -- History -- 20th century
• Aerial reconnaissance -- History
• Photographic reconnaissance systems -- History
• Scouting (Reconnaissance) -- History

• Early Cold War Overflights, 1950-1956: Symposium Proceedings (2 volumes; Washington: Office of the Historian, Naval Reconaissance Office, 2003), ed. by R. Cargill Hall and Clayton D. Laurie (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Need to Know: The Role of Air Force Reconnaissance in War Planning, 1945-1953 (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2004), by John Thomas Farquhar (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)

• Development of reconnaissance units in modern armies (Combat Studies Institute Press, U.S. Army Combined Arms Center, 2008), by John J. McGrath, U.S. Army Combined Arms Center, and Combat Studies Institute (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Allied aerial reconnaissance and photographic interpretation on the Western Front--World War I. (Center for Strategic Intelligence Research, National Defense Intelligence College :, 2006), by Terrence J. Finnegan and National Defense Intelligence College (U.S.). Center for Strategic Intelligence Research (page images at HathiTrust)

• Allied aerial reconnaissance and photographic interpretation on the Western Front--World War I. (Center for Strategic Intelligence Research, National Defense Intelligence College :, 2006), by Terrence J. Finnegan and National Defense Intelligence College (U.S.). Center for Strategic Intelligence Research (page images at HathiTrust)

• Development of reconnaissance units in modern armies (Combat Studies Institute Press, U.S. Army Combined Arms Center, 2008), by John J. McGrath, U.S. Army Combined Arms Center, and Combat Studies Institute (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Early Cold War Overflights, 1950-1956: Symposium Proceedings (2 volumes; Washington: Office of the Historian, Naval Reconaissance Office, 2003), ed. by R. Cargill Hall and Clayton D. Laurie (page images at HathiTrust)

• Early Cold War Overflights, 1950-1956: Symposium Proceedings (2 volumes; Washington: Office of the Historian, Naval Reconaissance Office, 2003), ed. by R. Cargill Hall and Clayton D. Laurie (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Need to Know: The Role of Air Force Reconnaissance in War Planning, 1945-1953 (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2004), by John Thomas Farquhar (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)

• Center for the Study of National Reconnaissance Classics (Center for the Study of National Reconnaissance, 2012), by F. C. E. Oder, P. E. Worthman, J. C. Fitzpatrick, and Center for the Study of National Reconnaissance (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Center for the Study of National Reconnaissance Classics (Center for the Study of National Reconnaissance, 2012), by F. C. E. Oder, P. E. Worthman, J. C. Fitzpatrick, and Center for the Study of National Reconnaissance (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Information in War: Its Acquisition and Transmission (London: W. Clowes and Sons, 1895), by George Armand Furse (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Service of Security and Information (11th edition; Kansas City: Hudson-Kimberly Pub. Co., c1903), by Arthur L. Wagner
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• Practical instruction in security and information of non-commissioned officers of infantry. (Franklin Hudson publishing co., 1907), by Edward Kingsley Massee (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on military surveying; including sketching in the field, plan-drawing, levelling, military reconnoissance, etc. ... (W. H. Allen & co., 1853), by Basil Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Methods of obtaining and transmitting information by balloon service (Govt. print. off., 1918), by United States. War Department. Division of Military Aeronautics (page images at HathiTrust)
• Military sketching and reconnaissance (E. Stanford, 1903), by A. F. Mockler-Ferryman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Training manual in topography, map reading and reconnaissance. (Govt. Print. Off., 1917), by George Redfield Spalding and United States Army Corps of Engineers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Training manual in topography, map reading and reconnaissance. (Govt. print. off., 1918), by George Redfield Spalding and United States Army Corps of Engineers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Work of the observer (Govt. print. off., 1918), by United States. War Department. Division of Military Aeronautics (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tactical reconnaissance : a Soviet view (Dept. of the Air Force :, 1990), by United States. Dept. of the Air Force (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on military surveying : including sketching in the field, plan-drawing, levelling, military reconnoissance, also a particular description of the surveying instruments commonly employed by military men, with instructions for using and adjusting them (W.H. Allen, 1847), by Basil Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A catechism of outpost duty : including advance guards, rear guards and reconnaissance (Hudson-Kimberly Pub. Co., 1895), by Arthur L. Wagner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tactical walks (G. Harvey, 1918), by William H. Waldron (page images at HathiTrust)
• Patrols, scouting, messages (H.S. Crocker Co., 1916), by California. Adjutant General's Office and Kenyon A. Joyce (page images at HathiTrust)
• The service of security and information (Hudson-Kimberly Publishing Co., 1899), by Arthur L. Wagner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The service of security and information (Hudson-Kimberly, 1896), by Arthur L. Wagner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The service of security and information (James J. Chapman, 1893), by Arthur L. Wagner (page images at HathiTrust)
• A course of military surveying; including instructions for sketching in the field, plan drawing, levelling, military reconnoissance, etc., ... also a particular description of the surveying instruments, commonly employed by military men in the field (W.H. Allen, 1841), by Basil Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Army TENCAP into the twenty-first century. (Army Space Program Office, 1996), by United States. Army Space Program Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• A catechism of outpost duty, including advance guards, rear guards and reconnaissance (Hudson-Kimberly publishing co., 1895), by Arthur Lockwood Wagner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The service of security and information (Franklin Hudson Pub. Co., 1903), by Arthur L. Wagner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The limiting capabilities of unaided human vision in aerial reconnaissance (Armed Forces, National Research Council, Vision Committee Secretariat, 1953), by Seibert Q Duntley and Armed Forces-NRC Vision Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Human intelligence : all humans, all minds, all the time (Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2010), by Robert David Steele and Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité de topographie et de reconnaissances militaires (L. Baudoin, 1885), by E. Bertrand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Military sketching and reconnaissance (K. Paul, Trench, 1886), by Frederick J. Hutchison and Henry Grey MacGregor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The field engineer's vade-mecum (T. Egerton, 1802), by Isaac Landmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scouting, patroling and musketry; a complete course of practical training for small infantry units (The Amer. Army and Navy Jour., Inc., 1922), by P. S. Bond, Edwin Hunter Crouch, Thomas Leroy McMurray, O. O. Ellis, and Enoch Barton Garey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reconocimientos militares. Estudio detallado y empleo del terreno. Pequeñas operaciones. (G.A. Esteva, 1879), by Pablo Rocha y Portu (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of reconnaissance (J. Murray, 1916), by David Henderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Piyade keşşafları (Kitaphane-yi İslâm ve Askeri İbrahim Hilmi, 1903), by Mehmet Ârifî (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Keşşaf (Mahmut Bey Matbaası, 1886), by Hasan Rıza (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Independent Commission on the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2002), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Strategic, Independent Commission on the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (U.S.), and National Commission for the Review of the National Reconnaissance Office (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Methods of obtaining and transmitting information by balloon service (Govt. print. off., 1918), by United States. War depts. Division of military aeronautics (page images at HathiTrust)
• Balloon observation (Govt. print. off., 1918), by United States. War dept. Division of military aeronautics (page images at HathiTrust)
• The service of security and information (U. S. A., Hudson-Kimberly publishing co. [etc., 1896), by Arthur Lockwood Wagner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoir on the reconnaissance of rivers, for the use of L'École d'application du Corps royal d'état-major. (Printed by L. R. Bailey, 1843), by A.-M. Augoyat, W. R. Palmer, and École d'application du Corps royal d'état-major (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tactical walks (United States Infantry Association, 1917), by William H. Waldron (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reconnaissance in the Russo-Japanese war (Hugh Rees, ltd., 1908), by Asiaticus and Joseph Montgomery (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report of the Independent Commission on the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2002), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Strategic, Independent Commission on the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (U.S.), and National Commission for the Review of the National Reconnaissance Office (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Military landscape sketching and target indication (Hugh Rees, 1916), by W. G. Newton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scouting and patrolling (War Office, 1917), by Great Britain War Office General Staff (page images at HathiTrust)
• The service of security and information (Hudson-Kimberly Pub. Co., 1896), by Arthur Lockwood Wagner and Charles B. Hagadorn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The service of security and information (Franklin Hudson Pub. Co., 1899), by Arthur Lockwood Wagner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sniping (Dept. of the Navy, Headquarters U. S. Marine Corps], 1969), by United States Marine Corps (page images at HathiTrust)
• Map reading and reconnaissance (H. Rees, ltd., 1918), by D. G. Macpherson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Forward air controller : tactical pocket checklist. (Occupational Skills Dept., Marine Corps Institute, 1996), by Marine Corps Institute (U.S.). Occupational Skills Department (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of reconnaissance (John Murray, 1914), by David Henderson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Reconnaissance, security marches, halts (tentative). (Command and General Staff School Press, 1937), by Command and General Staff School (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reconnaissance by horse cavalry regiments and smaller units (The Military service publishing company, 1939), by Terry de la Mesa Allen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Notes on reconnoitring in South Africa. Boer war, 1899-1900. (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1901), by R. C. M. (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cavalerie (R. Chapelot et Cie., 1912), by Capitaine Loir and H. Langlois (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tadhkīr al-mursal bi-taḥrīr al-mufaṣṣal wa-al-mujmal. (al-Maṭbaʻah al-Mīrīyah, 1860), by Muḥammad Marʻashlī, Ṣāliḥ Majdī, and Muḥammad Qaṭṭah ʻAdawī (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dismounted patrolling (Ranger Department, United States Army Infantry School, 1981), by United States Army Infantry School. Ranger Department (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eyes behind the lines : US Army long-range reconnaissance and surveillance units (Combat Studies Institute, 2005), by James F. Gebhardt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Operator performance in strike reconnaissance (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio : Wright Air Development Division, Air Research and Development Command, U.S. Air Force, 1960., 1960), by Allexander Coxe Williams, Stanley Nelson Roscoe, Ruth Haugen, C. W. Simon, United States. Air Force. Air Research and Development Command, United States. Wright Air Development Division, and Hughes Aircraft Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Balloon observation, and instructions on the subject of work in the basket, by United States. War Department. Division of Military Aeronautics (Gutenberg ebook)

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