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Title: Some Interesting Thoughts, Some Errors
Review: John Keegan herein presents six case studies of the effect of intelligence on war, and makes the very good point that intelligence is unable to accomplish anything unless linked to sufficient, well-used force.This is all very good, but I have to caution potential buyers: I know enough to partially evaluate one chapter, number five on Crete and Enigma. In it, Keegan displays such complete misunderstanding of cryptography that literally nothing he says on the subject can be trusted (he thinks the Caesar cipher, the world's simplest substitution system, is a transposition!). This leaves me wondering if the information I can't evaluate is similarly wrong.Worth reading, but probably not worth buying new.
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