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Five months after being deployed to Iraq, Lima Company's 1stPlatoon, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, found itself inFallujah, embroiled in some of the most intense house-to-house,hand-to-hand urban combat since World War II. In the city's bloodystreets, they came face-to-face with the enemy--radical insurgentshigh on adrenaline, fighting to a martyr's death, and suicidebombers approaching from every corner. Award-winning author andhistorian Patrick O'Donnell stood shoulder to shoulder with thismodern band of brothers as they marched and fought through thestreets of Fallujah, and he stayed with them as the casualtiesmounted.
John Keegan, whose many books, including classic histories ofthe two world wars, have confirmed him as the premier miltaryhistorian of our time, here presents a masterly look at the valueand limitations of intelligence in the conduct of war. Intelligence gathering is an immensely complicated and vulnerableendeavor. And it often fails. Until the invention of the telegraphand radio, information often traveled no faster than a horse couldride, yet intelligence helped defeat Napoleon. In the twentiethcentury, photo analysts didn’t recognize Germany’s V-2 rockets forwhat they were; on the other hand, intelligence helped lead tovictory over the Japanese at Midway. In Intelligence inWar , John Keegan illustrates that only when paired withforce has military intelligence been an effective tool, as it mayone day be in besting al-Qaeda.
