by John Hughes-Wilson and Colonel John Hughes-Wilson

Optional Reading for the ICI workshop ICI-26

From the Back Cover:
In this controversial book, a long-serving professional military intelligence officer gives an insider’s view of some of the great intelligence blunders of recent history.

Colonel John Hughes-Wilson analyses not just the events that conspire to cause disaster, but why crucial intelligence is so often ignored, misunderstood or undervalued by politicians and seasoned generals alike. From Stalin’s Operation Barbarossa to the Gulf War 1991, the many examples here include:

• How Hitler’s own intelligence staff deliberately misled him in a bid to outfox their Nazi Party  rivals.
• The bureaucratic bungling and inter-service rivalries that enabled the devastating attack on  Pearl Harbor, even though the US was reading Japan’s most secret radio traffic.
• The Viet Cong’s Tet Offensive of 1968, which took the world’s most technologically advanced army  completely by surprise.
• The over-confidence, political interference and clever Arab deception that nearly inflicted a  crushing defeat on Israel in 1973.
• Why a handful of marines and a London taxicab were all Britain had to defend the Falklans Islands  in 1982.
• The dramatically mistaken intelligence which left Saddam Hussein in power nearly a decade after  the Gulf War of 1991. 
  

• Paperback: 372 pages
• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers (February 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786707151
• ISBN-13: 978-0786707157