This book is a professional military-intelligence officer's & 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 & 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 & deception facilitated Egypt & Syria's 1973 surprise attack on Israel; why a handful of marines & 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 911 WTC bombing; & how governments are increasingly pressurising intelligence agencies to 'spin' the party-political line