Military Intelligence Blunders

Secret Canukus Eyes Only In this controversial book, a long-serving professional military intelligence officer gives an insider's view of some of the great intelligence blunders of recent history. Colonel John Hughes-Wilson analyses not just the events that conspire to cause disaster, but why crucial intelligence is so often ignored, misunderstood or undervalued by politicians and seasoned generals alike. From Stalin's Operation Barbarossa to the Gulf War of 1991, the many examples here include: * How Hitler's own intelligence staff deliberately misled him in a bid to outfox their Nazi Party rivals * The bureaucratic bungling and inter-service rivalries that enabled the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor, even though the US was reading Japan's most secret radio traffic * The Viet Cong's Tet Offensive of 1968, which took the world's most technologically advanced army completely by surprise * The over-confidence, political interference and clever Arab deception that nearly inflicted a crushing defeat on Israel in 1973 * Why a handful of marines and a London taxicab were all Britain had to defend the Falkland Islands in 1982 * The dramatically mistaken intelligence which left Saddam Hussein in power nearly a decade after the Gulf War of 1991.Wilson, John Hughes is the author of 'Military Intelligence Blunders' with ISBN 9780786707157 and ISBN 0786707151.