Major General Arthur Charles Shortt, CB, OBE (2 April 1899 – June 1984) was a British Army officer who served as Director of Military Intelligence from 1949 to 1953.

Shortt was commissioned into the Royal Engineers on 26 August 1916, during the First World War.

[1] He served during the interwar period, where he was in charge of a company of Gentlemen Cadets at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich from January 1931.

[5] Shortt became Director of Military Intelligence in December 1949,[6] in which role he regarded the British Army of the Rhine Intelligence Service "as the most important Field Agency on the Soviet Army anywhere".

[7] He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1951 New Year Honours,[8] and went on to be Head of the Joint Services Liaison Staff in Australia in September 1953 before retiring in April 1956.