'A cracking good read... I will recommend this book to anyone' - Professor Richard Holmes, CBE 'The Falklands, Yom Kippur, Tet and Pearl Harbor? Avoidable intel

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.

The events of 9/11 and the war on terrorism and the daily crises in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—behind them lie some of the most shocking failures and mi

From the War for Independence to the War on Terror, American military intelligence has often failed, costing needless casualties and squandering money and mater

From the ancient Greek and Roman origins of human intelligence to its use in the Catholic church to Francis Walsingham's Elizabethan secret service to the birth