Revised edition of : Military intelligence blunders. 1999. Rev. ed. of: Military intelligence blunders. 1999. Includes maps of: Dispositions, June 1944; Allied Deception Plans for D-Day; Operation Barbarossa, 22 June 1941; Pearl Harbor - Japan's Grab for Empire, 1941-1942; Malaya and Singapore, 1942; Disaster at Dieppe, 19 August 1942; Vietnam War, 1956-1975; Tet Offensive - South Vietnam, 30-31 January 1968; Greater Israel, 1967-1973; Yom Kippur, 1973 - Suez and Sinai; Falklands War, 1982 - Relative Distances; South Atlantic, 1982; Gulf War, 1990-1991.

On intelligence -- The misinterpreters - D-Day, 1944 -- "Comrade Stalin knows best" - Barbarossa, 1941 -- "The finest intelligence in our history" - Pearl Harbor, 1941 -- "The greatest disaster ever to befall British arms" - Singapore, 1942 -- Uncombined operations - Dieppe, 1942 -- "I thought we were supposed to be winning?" - the Tet Offensive, 1968 -- "Prime Minister, the War's begun" - Yom Kippur, 1973 -- "Nothing we don't already know" - the Falkland Islands, 1982 -- "If Kuwait grew carrots, we wouldn't give a damn" - the Gulf, 1991 -- The biggest blunder? The attack on the World Trade Center and the globalization of terror -- Will it ever get any better?