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Synopsis
This book tells the stories behind some of the world's most disastrous military mistakes, whether caused by faulty information, bad interpretation, cunning plans to deceive the intelligence gatherers or leaders who won't listen to what they are told. It is an analysis of the "intelligence cycle" that turns raw data into useful information about capabilities and intentions and then brings it to the attention of the decision-makers. Who uses many examples of all kinds of extraordinary decisions and deceptions from history to show how often and badly things can go wrong.
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From the Author
"A compelling read from someone who knows the business".
In writing this book, I have tried to look at the intelligence behind many of well known military blunders. For the truth is that most of the catastrophes or disasters we know so well, like Vietnam, Barbarossa, Pearl Harbor, Yom Kippur, the Falklands and the Gulf War, were all really intelligence blunders first and foremost. If the decision makers had only heeded the intelligence available to them at the time [Stalin had no less than 103 direct warnings that the Germans were going to invade in 1941] then the course of history would have been very different. That is the attraction of intelligence blundering: if only the power brokers had listened to the information when they had the chance....The other thing I have tried hard to do is to give the reader "a good read." This is unfootnoted, narrative history that is meant to be read as a story. One of my American readers said that 'it reads like a thriller...' Good; that's exactly what I was trying to give the reader: a good read.
About the Author
Colonel John Hughes-Wilson, who retired from the British Intelligence Corps after 30 years' service that included the Falklands, Cyprus, Northern Ireland and the desert as well as the jungles of Whitehall, is an author, broadcaster and lecturer, who specialises in military history and intelligence.
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- PublisherRobinson
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 1841190675
- ISBN 13 9781841190679
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages384
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