Jane's Intelligence Review is a monthly journal on military intelligence published by Jane's Information Group (Jane's). Its coverage includes international security issues, ongoing conflicts, organized crime, and weapons proliferation.
It was first published in January 1989 as Jane's Soviet Intelligence Review, although a pilot edition had been produced in September the previous year and distributed at the Farnborough Airshow in order to test the market. Uniquely for Jane's – and its parent company, the Thomson Corporation – the magazine carried no advertising but relied on subscription revenue only. It was profitable in its first year of publication and is believed to have remained profitable ever since. Amongst the first subscribers were the then vice-president of the USA, Dan Quayle, and the author Tom Clancy. Included in the January 1989 issue were articles on the Soviet 2S6 air-defence system, the Soviet Mi-24 helicopter and the new commanding general of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, Army General Stanislav Postnikov.
Specialist correspondents for the magazine in 1989 included Joe Bermudez (an expert in the development of ballistic missile technology by developing countries). Chris Foss (editor of Jane's Armour and Artillery), David Isby (author of Weapons and Tactics of the Soviet Union), Group Captain Duncan Lennox (editor of Jane's Air-Launched Weapons) and John Taylor (editor of Jane's All the World's Aircraft).
In 1991, in response to the break-up of the Warsaw Pact, the magazine changed its title to Jane's Intelligence Review although it had already expanded its coverage to include a special report on Iraq in October 1990 following that country's invasion of Kuwait.
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