Senseless Secrets: The Failures of US Military Intelligence

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The United States spends $28 billion annually to operate its intelligence activities and another $6 billion to classify and safeguard the information gathered. However, little of these data trickle down to the military leaders. American forces landed on Grenada with useless tourist maps and incorrect information about the location of the students and government officials they were sent to rescue. Many small-unit commanders in Vietnam, including the author, cannot recall ever having received a single piece of useful intelligence. During the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Bosnia Herzegovina, the air force knew nothing about the Serbs's acquisition and deployment of antiair missiles. As a result, Captain Scott O'Grady's U.S. Air Force F-16 carried no antimissile defenses. ISBN:9780760708682