Military Intelligence Blunders

A professional military-intelligence officer's - and controversial insider's - view of some of the greatest intelligence blunders...
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Author: John Wilson
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Military Intelligence Blunders by Wilson, John

Military Intelligence Blunders

CHF 24.76

Military Intelligence Blunders

CHF 24.76
Author: John Wilson
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A professional military-intelligence officer's - and controversial insider's - view of some of the greatest intelligence blunders of recent history.

This book 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 analyzes 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 analyzes:
  • 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 9/11
  • how governments are increasingly pressuring intelligence agencies to 'spin' a party-political line


Author: John Wilson
Publisher: John Blake
Published: 02/06/2024
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.20w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9781789466690

About the Author
During his twenty-five years in the Intelligence Corps and as a Special Forces operations officer, Colonel John Hughes-Wilson saw active service in the Falkland Islands, Cyprus, Arabia, and Northern Ireland, as well as in the dangerous jungles of Whitehall and NATO. One of Britain's leading military historians, he is the author, among other books, of JFK: An American Coup d'Etat (John Blake, 2013) and the Imperial War Museum's A History of the First World War in 100 Objects (2014); his much reprinted book Intelligence Blunders was found at Osama Bin Laden's bedside and has become a CIA textbook. He has also been a frequent broadcaster for BBC television and radio.

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