CONTENTS
Foreword: By Brigadier General Michael Ennis..."The first rule of intelligence is that it is intended to reduce uncertainty, not eliminate it."
Preface: About JICPOA . . . what "intelligence failure" is and is not . . . the essentials of intelligence . . . the intelligence cycle . . . the essentials of amphibious assault
Chapter 1. Genesis: Pacific intelligence before Pearl Harbor . . . the history of JICPOA . . . the structure of JICPOA and how it operated
Chapter 2. The Marshalls: Operations Flintlock and Catchpole . . . Kwajalein Atoll . . . Roi-Namur, and Kwajalein Islands . . . Eniwetok Atoll . . . Engebi, Eniwetok, and Parry Islands
Chapter 3. The Marianas: Operation Forager . . . Saipan . . . Guam . . . Tinian
Chapter 4. Peleliu: Operation Stalemate II: Peleliu
Chapter 5. Iwo Jima and Okinawa: Operations Detachment and Iceberg . . . Iwo Jima . . . Okinawa
Chapter 6. The Home Islands and the Bomb: Operations Olympic and Downfall . . . Kyushu . . . intelligence and the decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan
Chapter 7. Conclusions and Lessons Learned . . . why intelligence worked well for some campaigns and not others . . . 31 intelligence lessons learned from the Pacific War
Subject Material
U.S. personalities in this book include Admiral Chester Nimitz, Admiral Raymond Spruance, General Holland Smith, Admiral Richmond Turner, Edwin T Layton, General Thomas Holcomb, Pete Ellis, Admiral Ernest King, General Douglas MacArthur, Donald "Mac" Showers, W. J. Holmes, and Captain Joseph J Rochefort. It also talks about several Japanese commanders, such as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Colonel Hiomichi Yahara, General Sadae Inoue, and General Mitsuru Ushijima.
Spies for Nimitz discusses scores of intelligence issues such as the intelligence cycle (direction, collection, processing/analysis, production, dissemination), sources and methods (signals intelligence, photo intelligence, document intelligence, POW interrogation), reconnaissance and SALUTE, submarine and aerial reconnaissance, source corroboration, and administrative support for an intelligence agency.
Military operational issues include operations planning and intelligence integration, amphibious warfare (island hopping, island warfare, atoll warfare), axis of advance, avenue of approach, logistics, combat loading, ship to shore movement, establishing the beachhead, movement inland, seizure of key objectives, destruction of high payoff targets, naval preliminary bombardment and gunfire support, and tactical air support.
