Cover of John Hughes-Wilson: On Intelligence

John Hughes-Wilson On Intelligence

The History of Espionage and the Secret World

Price: 419 Kč
Price for Eshop: 377 Kč (€ 15.1)

VAT 0% included

New

English

In stock, ships in 24 hours


U Lužického semináře 10, Malá Strana

Book information

Little, Brown Book Group

UK

2017

Paperback

528

Standard

294911

978-1-4721-2207-0

1-4721-2207-0

Military intelligence

Annotation

This book is a professional military-intelligence officer's and a 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 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 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 over confidence, 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' the party-political line.

Ask question

You can ask us about this book and we'll send an answer to your e-mail.

Write new comment