A hopeless struggle: Austro-Hungarian cryptology during World War I

Cryptologia, Oct 2000 by Schindler, John R

14KA/NFA, Fasz. 734, Gefechts-Bericht k. u. k. 4. Armee, Juni 1916; KA, Nachlass Nowak, B/726, Nr. I/III, 727; for a thorough explanation see J. R. Schindler, "A Hopeless Struggle: The Austro-Hungarian Army and Total War, 1914-1918" (PhD diss., McMaster Univ., 1995), 144-156.

15he Romanian campaign is elaborated in "Osterreich-Ungarns letzter Krieg: V: Das Kriegsjahr 1916/11 (Vienna, 1934), 223-360, 49-630; or more briefly in Rudolf Kiszling, "Der Krieg gegen RumBnien 1916," Osterne"ische Militdrische Zeitschrift (1966).

isKA/NFA, Fasz. 3086, AOK 14, Abt. Akonach Nr. 111/488 geh, 12.10.17; k. u. k. 55.ID.Kmdo, Op. Nr. 146, 18.10.17; k. u. k. I. Korps, Op. Nr. 233/4, 21.10.17; Schindler, 196-203.

17S?hindler, 211-5, 222-7.

181mprovements in Italian cryptography noted after Caporetto were attributable to the prodigious British and French military assistance offered to their ailing ally, which included detachments of veteran cryptographers.

19KA/NFA, Fasz. 1707, KISA, Op. Nr. 10964, 4.6.18; KISA, Gstabt., Op. Nr. 2900/23, 3.6.18; Kriegs- and Industrie-Spionage, 315-20.

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John R. Schindler is a writer and historian specializing in intelligence affairs and strategic studies. He is a PhD (History, 1995) from McMaster University. He is author of several articles as well as Isonzo: The Forgotten Sacrifice of the Great War (2000) and the forthcoming Redl: Spy of the Century.