About the Book: On Intelligence
This book is a professional military-intelligence officers and a controversial
insiders view of some of the greatest intelligence blunders of recent history.
It includes the serious developments in government misuse of intelligence in the
recent war with Iraq. 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 Hitlers 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