Drawing on recently available military documents, this history of military intelligence focuses on the successes and failures of US Naval intelligence in understanding and evaluating Japanese military capabilities in the Second World War. The work explores the technical difficulties of intelligence gathering and analysis as well as cultural and political stumbling blocks that left the US forces relatively badly informed as to their opponent's capabilities well into the conflict. Ford teaches military history at the University of Salford, UK. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)