America's Strategic Blunders: Intelligence Analysis and National Security Policy, 1936-1991 Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

America's Strategic Blunders: Intelligence Analysis and National Security Policy, 1936-1991 Book

This survey of more than fifty years of national security policy juxtaposes declassified U.S. national intelligence estimates with recently released Soviet documents disclosing the views of Soviet leaders and their Communist allies on the same events. Matthias shows that U.S. intelligence estimates were usually correct but that our political and military leaders generally ignored them-with sometimes disastrous results. The book begins with a look back at the role of U.S. intelligence during World War II, from Pearl Harbor through the plot against Hitler and the D-Day invasion to the "unconditional surrender" of Japan, and reveals how better use of the intelligence available could have saved many lives and shortened the war. The following chapters dealing with the Cold War disclose what read more...
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