Intelligence information is the bloodline of any war; clues collected by spies or pieced together from intercepts and electronic monitoring are critical to all combatants.
Yet for obvious reasons, intelligence is neither seen nor heard. It may be years before we get even a hint of the sort of intelligence information possessed by a country involved in fighting; the British took decades before admitting that they succeeded in cracking some of Nazi Germany's communication codes during World War II.
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