Senseless Secrets: The Failures of U.S. Military Intelligence from George Washington to the Present by Michael Lee LanningMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
" from George Washington to the Present " makes for a very wide, ambitious scope. As such, this ends up being a thin military history of the U.S. with a focus on and point of view of military intelligence. One point well made is that military intelligence did not emerge institutionally until the pre-detective agency fumbling of Pinkerton and a bunch of unreliable balloons during the Civil War. The book could have started there after some introduction. In looking back with a view that most military failures and successes have an intelligence cause, the author calls for inter-service cooperation and greater coherence between the military branches. It is depressing how often in the field even just radio tech differences were crucial.
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