Comments by "William Cox" (@WildBillCox13) on "[Navy Chat] Military Intelligence \u0026 Your Questions #5" video.

  1. Try: "Intelligence in War" by John Keegan. You might very well enjoy it.
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  2. Imagine if the entente had any clue as to what would happen at Gallipoli . . .
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  3. I call it the Law of Hubris. The USN had almost total intel on the Japanese forces at Midway, but the action was full of accidental turnarounds, accidental ship positions, improbable aircraft spottings, chance squalls . . . Murphy's Law trumps Intel at the exact instant you think you've got it all figured out.
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  4. A lot of fun, as always. Thanks for posting, Justin and Bernard. As for Wikipedia . . . If you know how to tell peer reviewed papers (which have a specific layout and style of presentation and accredation) from spoof papers (which do not follow those conventions) you'll be well off in Wikipedia. Naturally, like you, when I get there I have already read a great many references, know the authors and their soapboxes and themes, and have a sense of the flow of history or topic. That also helps greatly when researching through freely edited information..
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  5. Reads about your victory in the Neu Schwabenland Beobachter, asks the waitress for another slice of cake, arrives fashionably late at the Hanebu christening and, as a plank holder, has his own stateroom on board. Goodbye forever, Earth! Now we set course for Paradiso, a very pretty blue planet orbiting Alfa Centaurus A. There we have discovered a race that has everything . . . plus a flat head to put your beer on.
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