Military intelligence blunders and cover-ups - John Hughes-Wilson

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.