By Steven J. Zaloga, Howard Gerrard

Within the early hours of D-Day, 1944, a bunch from the united states military second Rangers Battalion have been despatched on one of many mythical raids of global struggle II. The challenge was once to scale the cliffs overlooking Omaha seashore and attack the German coastal artillery at Pointe-du-Hoc. It was once proposal that just a raid may possibly make sure that the weapons might stay silent in the course of the D-Day landings. yet allied intelligence was once wrong.After mountain climbing the cliffs less than competitive German hearth and securing the battery website, the Rangers found that the weapons themselves have been now not there. It was once in basic terms because of the heroic activities of the Rangers concerned that the weapons have been positioned in firing positions dealing with Utah seashore and destroyed ahead of they can be used. within the first of a new sequence for Osprey, this act of audacious bold is dropped at existence, whole with illustrated paintings, maps and infrequent German debts. Taking a extra serious examine the tale, Steven Zaloga analyses each aspect, from the intelligence failings to the confidence of the Rangers' within the face of such odds.

By Stratfor

Even if safeguarding humans or locations, so much safety operations glance from the interior out, and all too usually extra awareness is paid to the "who" rather than the "how." yet an outstanding defense application is carried out from the skin in, in keeping with motion instead of response. the belief is to target intelligence that may hinder the following assault from occurring. We check with this proactive technique as protecting intelligence.

By Benjamin S. Lambeth

This document files the phenomenal cross-service concord that the U.S. Air strength and U.S. army have gradually constructed of their behavior of built-in strike operations because the first Persian Gulf struggle in 1991. That shut concord contrasts sharply with the location that prevailed all through lots of the chilly battle, whilst the 2 providers maintained separate and distinctive working mindsets and lacked any major interoperability positive aspects.

By Robert W. Pringle

The KGB and GRU are only of the numerous Russian and Soviet intelligence corporations coated in ancient Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence. via an inventory of acronyms and abbreviations, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and thousands of cross-referenced dictionary entries, a transparent photograph of this topic is gifted. Entries additionally conceal Russian and Soviet leaders, major intelligence and safety officials, the Lenin and Stalin purges, the gulag, and famous espionage instances.

By James David Robenalt, John W. Dean

Warren Harding fell in love together with his appealing neighbor, Carrie Phillips, in the summertime of 1905, nearly a decade ahead of he used to be elected a usa Senator and fifteen years earlier than he grew to become the twenty ninth President of the United States.  whilst the 2 lovers started their long term and torrid affair, neither of them may have foreseen that their courting could play out opposed to one of many maximum wars in global history--the First global War.  Harding may turn into a Senator with the facility to vote for conflict; Mrs. Phillips and her daughter might develop into German brokers, spying on a U. S. education camp on lengthy Island in the hopes of gauging for the Germans the speed of mobilization of the U. S. military for entry into the battlefields in France. Based on over 800 pages of correspondence came across within the Nineteen Sixties yet less than seal ever because within the Library of Congress, The Harding Affair will inform the unknown tales of Harding as a robust Senator and his own and political lifestyles, together with his complex romance with Mrs. Phillips.  The e-book also will discover the explanations for the access of the United States into the ecu clash and clarify why such a lot of american citizens on the time supported Germany, even after the U. S. grew to become focused on the spring of 1917.   James David Robenalt's accomplished research of the letters is determined in a story that weaves in a real-life undercover agent tale with the tale of Harding's now not unintended upward thrust to the presidency.

By John P Piedmont; United States. Marine Corps. History Division

By Ben Macintyre

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING writer OF A secret agent between FRIENDS

A New York Times awesome publication of the Year
A Washington Post most sensible e-book of 2007
One of the pinnacle 10 most sensible Books of 2007 (Entertainment Weekly)
New York Times better of the 12 months Round-Up
New York Times Editors’ Choice

Eddie Chapman was once an enthralling felony, a con guy, and a philanderer. He was once additionally the most striking double brokers Britain has ever produced. contained in the traitor used to be a guy of loyalty; contained in the villain used to be a hero. the matter for Chapman, his spymasters, and his enthusiasts used to be to grasp the place one personality ended and the opposite started. in response to lately declassified documents, Agent Zigzag tells Chapman’s complete tale for the 1st time. It’s a gripping story of loyalty, love, treachery, espionage, and the skinny and transferring line among constancy and betrayal.

By Richard L. Russell

I would have leaned towards 4 stars in this e-book, that's definitely an invaluable contribution, however it falls into the second one tier for being a transparent hit job---and shallow in addition. Gaps within the author's interpreting (or writing) seemed from the very starting. misplaced first superstar there.

He defines strategic intelligence as concerned with threats and using strength. regardless of his point out of Adda Bozeman, he doesn't appear to have understood that the guts of strategic intelligence is deep and sustained research and figuring out of overseas cultures, histories, languages, genealogies, and ties that bind--financial, non secular, tribal, ethnic, and so on. misplaced moment megastar here.

There are ten high-level threats, twelve remediation guidelines, and 8 worldwide challengers, and all 30 of those elements needs to be studied as a complete and in relation, within the current, close to, and much time period. something much less isn't really strategic intelligence.

I am stricken by means of the author's particularly black and white bias in tarring CIA with all of the wrongs and exempting the policy-makers, and particularly Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and Feith, for his or her many mistakes and omissions in addition to 25 particular excessive crimes and misdemeanors dedicated by way of Cheney on my own as special within the One percentage Doctrine: Deep inside of America's Pursuit of Its Enemies considering that September 11 and Vice: Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the yankee Presidency.

The writer has learn (or written) selectively. His examples of failure on Korea don't comprise reference of the Secretary of State's Press membership visual appeal during which South Korea was once explicitly ignored of the yank orbit. His shallow assurance of Viet-Nam doesn't reap the benefits of a scarcity of connection with None So Blind: a private Account of the Intelligence Failure in Vietnam, conflict with no home windows: a real Account of a tender military Officer Trapped in an Intelligence Cover-Up in Vietnam, or Who the Hell Are We Fighting?: the tale of Sam Adams and the Vietnam Intelligence Wars, between others.

His assurance of Sept. 11 can be poor. whereas he adequately criticizes CIA for failing to truly ramp up either clandestine penetrations and analytic expertise, and he faults the FBI for now not sharing with CIA, he fails to say the nine particular warnings from overseas governments that the White apartment selected to use to accomplish "our Pearl Harbor"--the Israeli's even despatched a video team to seize the known-in-advance occasion for his or her information, whereas Dick Cheney geared up an "exercise" with a command heart now not within the goal construction the place the command heart was once initially outfitted at nice price.

On Iraq, i discovered the writer irritating--almost whining--in his never-flagging attempt to tar the CIA. obviously he's not conscious of, or doesn't desire to credits, the defection of Salaam Hussein's son in legislation and the 25+ line crossers Charlie Allen is related to have despatched in, as stated in Bob Woodward's country of Denial: Bush at warfare, half III all of whom got here again with a similar tale: saved the cookbooks, destroyed the shares, bluffing for nearby influence's sake.

I believe the writer on a few key points:

1) DNI wouldn't have been created, this simply created one other layer of paperwork so shall we advertise the losers who obtained us the following another time.

2) CIA is out of contact with fact. whereas the writer glosses over the significance of open assets of knowledge, he's obviously thoroughly unexpected with what appropriately performed OSINT can do, to incorporate tribal genealogies and orders of conflict, financial-family ties and asset mapping, and so on.

3) the writer is unquestionably right to whale away at CIA protection. at the one hand, they didn't wish my wife's record at the three hundred overseas intelligence officials she met at one in every of my meetings, together with the LtGen from the KGB ("did you sleep with any of them? No? ignore it.") and at the different those are the morons who confused a GS-15 who dared to name Kazhikistan to solicit neighborhood perspectives, to the purpose that she give up CIA and is now more than pleased because the leader of the Intelligence research department at one of many Combatant instructions. i used to be barred from the campus by means of those fools for correctly returning a categorised rfile from USMC to CIA, eager about permission and transported either methods through approved couriers.

4) the writer is right at the fossilized layers of "management" and forms, and he does offer an outstanding evaluate of shortcomings, yet I for one, with event throughout 3 of the 4 Directorates again within the day, think of this publication to be a case of "several hundred bleats too many." sure, CIA is a large number. certain, CIA shouldn't have 800 SES positions and 200-400 cubicles that don't percentage with one other. it's all that undesirable? No. i may flip CIA round in ninety days simply by recruiting Amazon to mobilize all of the most sensible authors and readers on each subject; via growing exterior non-secret multinational intelligence-policy councils on each subject of significance as i'm doing now with the Earth Intelligence community; via asking DoD to make the Coalition Coordination middle right into a Multinational info Sharing Hub that does OSINT in addition to multinational HUMINT and close-in emplacement of US-provided technical units. someplace in there i'd fireplace thirds of the contractors, half the safety humans, thirds of the legal professionals, and such a lot of FBIS. this isn't rocket science.

The e-book ends weakly, with a point out of horizon scanning, which Singapore has become a twenty first century new craft of intelligence, however the writer obviously has now not learn Tom Quiggin's Seeing the Invisible: nationwide defense Intelligence in an doubtful Age, and is surprising to boot with the wider literatures on details society, glossy intelligence, approach & strength constitution, rising non-traditional in addition to catastrophic and disruptive threats, anti-Americanism and blow-back, and the damaging effect of household politics on sound international and nationwide safeguard policy.

This isn't compatible as a textbook.

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