Staff Requirements of the Inter Services Topographical Department

4. The J.I.C. has asked me to take up with you the questions posed by Colonel Vickers (as at X above), and to invite you to discuss (C) with Mr. Lawrence, who is the head of the appropriate department of M.E.W. 5. The Superintendent I.S.T.D. has also commented on the subject as follows:"(1) Not only Civil Affairs, but Planners and Force Commanders are directly interested in Resources. (2) It would be impossible to exclude Resources from the I.S.I.S. because Resources are related to topography and are essentially linked up with almost every other Part of the book (in particular ports and towns).