This book is a professional military-intelligence officer's and a
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 recent war with Iraq.
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 over confidence, 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' the party-political line.
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