GDG- BMI

[Alice J. Gayley]

Thanks, Eric!

Eric J. Wittenberg wrote:
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
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> Alice,
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> Bureau of Military Information.
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> Eric
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> On Oct 30, 2006, at 7:22 PM, Alice J. Gayley wrote:
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>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
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>>
>> Coming out of lurking status to ask a question...I know you're 
>> talking about military intelligence operations, but what does the 
>> acronym "BMI" mean?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Back to my corner...
>>
>> Richard M Kadas wrote:
>>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
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>>>
>>> Fishel's book is excellent in style and content. Fishel is an 
>>> intelligence wonk who is exceedingly careful about making assertions 
>>> that he didn't corroborate through use of multiple sources. From 
>>> reading his review of BMI's role in the GB campaign, it can be 
>>> argued that Gb was as much an intel victory in the ACW as Midway was 
>>> in WW II. IMHO telling the AoPs generally unaggressive group of 
>>> corps commanders that they outnumbered the ANV probasbly woildn't 
>>> have sold as they were convinced of the opposite and didn't wish to 
>>> be confused by the facts.
>>>   Dick
>>> James Cameron <cameron2 at optonline.net> wrote:
>>>   Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
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>>>
>>> << ""I wish that someone would write a book that would discuss this 
>>> subject in
>>> more detail.>>
>>>
>>> There are two books that deal with BMI operations. Edwin C. Fishel's 
>>> "The
>>> Secret War for the Union" and William B. Feis' "Grant's Secret 
>>> Service."
>>> Fishel covers the BMI up to and including the Gettysburg Campaign, 
>>> and Feis
>>> picks up from there and describes BMI activities until the end of 
>>> the war.
>>>
>>> Tom Ryan >>
>>>
>>> Fishel's book is by no means a light read. It's the kind of work 
>>> where you really need to pay attention as you go along. But the time 
>>> and effort involved is well worth reading one of the most seminal 
>>> books on the AOP (despite the title, its focus is heavily on that 
>>> army) to come out in recent years. In my opinion, it does not go too 
>>> far to say that anyone who has not read Fishel is at a serious 
>>> disadvantage in understanding the Gettysburg Campaign.
>>>
>>> It is interesting, though, how the intelligence gathered and, more 
>>> importantly, so accurately evaluated, by the BMI still seems to have 
>>> such limited influence on the mindset within much of the senior 
>>> command of the AOP that the ANV was so much larger than it actually 
>>> was. Almost as if the AOP's "corporate culture" was predisposed to 
>>> act on the basis it was outnumbered, even when, objectively, it 
>>> should have known better.
>>>
>>> Jim Cameron
>>>
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>> --Alice J. Gayley
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Alice J. Gayley
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