"In this war with no front lines on a map, never was intelligence more essential - but seldom has intelligence performed so poorly." Discuss in regard to Vietnam, 1962-72.

"In this war with no front lines on a map, never was intelligence more essential - but seldom has intelligence performed so poorly." Discuss in regard to Vietnam, 1962-72. Even though the US had some of the finest intelligence services in the world, the disaster at Pearl Harbour on Sunday 7 December 1941 took the Americans completely by surprise even though they were listening to Japan's most secret radio traffic and there were many signs that such …showed first 75 words of 2899 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2899 total…Vietnam. <Tab/>James J. Writz, '"Intelligence to Please"? the order-of-battle controversy during the Vietnam War', Political Science Quarterly. Summer 1991. <Tab/>Thomas L. Cubbage, 'Westmoreland vs. CBS: Was intelligence corrupted by policy demands?' Intelligence and National Security. 3:3 (July 1988) <Tab/>Ang Chen Guan, 'Khe Sanh - from the prospective of the North Vietnamese Communists', War in History. 8:1 (Jan 2001), pp. 87-98.