Intelligence Wars: Lessons from Baghdad
"[It] amounts toa worthy assessmentof tactical intelligence planning and operations." --proceedings, a magazine of the U.S. Naval Institute, Vol. 135/6/1,2076, June 2009"O'Hern addresses a key subject—how to get the most out of HUMINT (human intelligence) in the irregular wars of today and those of the future. Grounded in experience and thoughtful, it providesa great primer on the problems facing our HUMINT community todayand a set of practical recommendations to fix them." --Colonel T. X. Hammes, US Marine Corps (Ret.), author ofThe Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century"We constantly read about the U.S. Military uncovering Iranian agents penetrating the borders into Iraq from the media, but I believe the reports in the book accurately reflect a non-biased approach to revealing those reports. The book reads almost like a journal and without revealing too much information that would compromise efforts abroad. Mr. O'Hern didan outstanding jobof walking the tight rope between classified and unclassified, while providinga tool to teach analysts of all disciplines and experience levels,..." --Garth Phoebus, Marine veteran of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedoms I and II, former Senior Intelligence Analyst (Marine Expeditionary Unit), and executive editor of theMarine Corps Intelligence Association INTSUM Newsletter