Military Intelligence Blunders (eBook)

John Hughes-Wilson (Autor)

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2023
368 Seiten
John Blake (Verlag)
978-1-78946-676-8 (ISBN)

Infos

'A cracking good read... I will recommend this book to anyone' - Professor Richard Holmes, CBE 'The Falklands, Yom Kippur, Tet and Pearl Harbor? Avoidable intelligence blunders or much worse? Altogether a compelling read from someone who knows the business' - Nigel WestThis book is a professional military-intelligence officer's - and 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 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 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 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 the 9/11 WTC bombing; and how governments are increasingly pressurising intelligence agencies to 'spin' a party-political line.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.3.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Schlagworte: Asymmetric warfare • Battle of Midway 1942 • CIA • command and control • Counter-Terrorism • Cyberwarfare • Deception • Dieppe Raid, 1942 • Electronic counter-measures • electronic eavesdropping • Espionage • Falklands Campaign, 1982 • fall of Singapore, 1942 • first and second Gulf Wars, 1990, 2003 • Foreign and Commonwealth Office • GCHQ • German invasion of Russia 1941 • HUMINT, SIGINT and ELINT • intelligence assessment and analysis • Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 1941 • Korean War, 1950–3 • Military Intelligence • national security • NATO • Operation Overlord (invasion of Europe), 1944 • Political Interference • Satellite Surveillance • Surveillance • Tet Offensive, Vietnam, 1968 • the invasion of Ukraine 2022 • the War Against Terror • unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV – drones) • Yom Kippur War, 1973
• ISBN-10: 1-78946-676-8 / 1789466768
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78946-676-8 / 9781789466768