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the art of knowing where the enemy is before they know you know.
means the systematic collection and analysis of information about adversaries and terrain to guide decisions in war.
from formalized as a discipline in the world wars, though spies and scouts have done the job since sun tzu wrote about deception in 500 bce.
famous oxymoron jokecomedians call it a contradiction in terms since forever
enigma decodedbletchley park shortened wwii by an estimated two years
failure costs livespearl harbor and 9/11 both trace to intel gaps
for instance
bletchley park — cracked nazi enigma codes, uk, 1939-1945
mossad — israeli agency famed for eichmann capture, 1960
cia dni split — us created office of dni after 9/11 failures, 2004
operation mincemeat — fake corpse fooled nazis on d-day location, 1943