Military Intelligence Blunders (Hughes-Wilson John)(Paperback / softback)

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 rivalsthe bureaucratic bungling behind Pearl Harborhow in-fighting within American intelligence ensured they were taken off guard by the Viet Cong's 1968 Tet
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