Military Intelligence Blunders

by HUGHES-WILSON JOHN

• ISBN13: 9780786707157
• ISBN10: 0786707151
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: Pub Group West

Summary

In this controversial, eye-opening book, a long-serving professional military intelligence officer examines and analyzes the mistakes in military judgment that have resulted in some of the major catastrophes in the air, at sea, and on the battlefield since the crushing defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815.

Colonel John Hughes-Wilson not only explores how events have conspired to cause disasters in modern military history but also demonstrates why -- and the reason more often than not lies in the failure of politicians and seasoned generals alike to understand and appreciate fully the value of crucial intelligence information. Hughes-Wilson shows how, for one instance, American bureaucratic bungling and inter-service rivalries collaborated with the Japanese in their devastating attack on Pearl Harbor -- despite the fact that the US was monitoring Japan's top-secret radio traffic -- and he reveals why, for another, the Viet Cong's Tet Offensive of 1968 took the world's most technologically advanced army completely by surprise.

In Hitler's Berlin as in Sadda

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
On Intelligence	p. 1
The Misinterpreters - D-Day, 1944	p. 16
"Comrade Stalin Knows Best" - Barbarossa, 1941	p. 38
"The Finest Intelligence in Our History" - Pearl Harbor, 1941	p. 60
"The Greatest Disaster Ever to Befall British Arms" - Singapore, 1942	p. 102
Uncombined Operations - Dieppe, 1942	p. 133
"I Thought We Were Supposed to be Winning?" - The Tet Offensive, 1968	p. 165
"Prime Minister, the War's Begun" - Yom Kippur, 1973	p. 218
"Nothing We Don't Already Know" - The Falkland Islands, 1982	p. 260
"If Kuwait Grew Carrots, We Wouldn't Give a Damn" - The Gulf, 1991	p. 308
Will It Ever Get Any Better?	p. 353
Suggested Reading List	p. 361
Glossary of Terms	p. 365
Index	p. 367
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