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Military Intelligence Blunders (Paperback)
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Military Intelligence Blunders (Paperback)
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Loot Price R271
Discovery Miles 2 710
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'A cracking good read... I will recommend this book to anyone' -
Professor Richard Holmes, CBE 'The Falklands, Yom Kippur, Tet and
Pearl Harbor? Avoidable intelligence blunders or much worse?
Altogether a compelling read from someone who knows the business' -
Nigel West This book is a professional military-intelligence
officer's - and controversial insider's - view of some of the
greatest intelligence blunders of recent history. It includes the
serious developments in government misuse of intelligence in the
US-led coalition's 2003 war with Iraq, as well as failures of
intelligence in Ukraine following Russia's invasion in February
2022. Colonel John Hughes-Wilson analyses not just the events that
conspire to cause disaster, but why crucial intelligence is so
often ignored, misunderstood or spun by politicians and seasoned
generals alike. This book analyses: how Hitler's intelligence staff
misled him in a bid to outfox their Nazi Party rivals; the
bureaucratic bungling behind Pearl Harbor; how in-fighting within
American intelligence ensured they were taken off guard by the Viet
Cong's 1968 Tet Offensive; how overconfidence, political
interference and deception facilitated Egypt and Syria's 1973
surprise attack on Israel; why a handful of marines and a London
taxicab were all Britain had to defend the Falklands; the mistaken
intelligence that allowed Saddam Hussein to remain in power until
the second Iraq War of 2003; the truth behind the US failure to run
a terrorist warning system before the 9/11 WTC bombing; and how
governments are increasingly pressurising intelligence agencies to
'spin' a party-political line.
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