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Uncovering Ways of War: U. S. Intelligence and Foreign Military Innovation, 1918-1941, by Thomas G. Mahnken.
The conventional wisdom regarding American military intelligence prior to the outbreak of the Second World War portrays "ineffective and inept-even incompetent-organizations" tasked with missions that they were ill equipped to accomplish given parsimonious budgetary allotments and poorly trained personnel, In this impressive work, Thomas G. Mahnken demonstrates the limitations of...