Jane's Military Communications is an annual
reference book (also published online) covering
military communications and advances in the equipment used by various armed forces. Published by
Jane's Information Group, a subsidiary of
IHS Inc., it purports to be "the most comprehensive military communications information resource available." The former European editor of the
Journal of Electronic Defense, John Williamson, was appointed editor in 1984. Previously R.J. Raggett was the editor. Rodney Cowton, Defence Correspondent of
the Times reviewed
Jane's Military Communications 1983. Mr Raggett provided shipboard communications analysis of the
Falklands Conflict from the British perspective: facilities for shipboard information storage & processing too small; backlogs of up to 1,000 messages; rooms not large enough to handle increased people traffic of the war environment; Argentines were able to intercept insecure communications. In 1983 these problems were considered "inevitable" considering the volume of up to 250,000 messages. 'Bob' Raggett predicted in the introduction that, by 2000, "electronic systems could render a nuclear attack by an unfriendly power virtually impossible".