About the book: 2014 / In his controversial book, a professional who has devoted many years to service presents his view of some of the high-profile failures of military intelligence at the present stage of history, including events in Iraq associated with the misinterpretation of intelligence information by the governments of the countries of the anti-Iraq coalition. Colonel Hughes-Wilson analyzes not only the events that led to the disaster, but also the reasons why important information was ignored, presented in the wrong way, and sometimes simply remained misunderstood by politicians and military generals.