Why were we caught off-guard when the Soviets tried to sneak missiles into Cuba?
Was this the exceedingly of President Kennedy, or the intelligence community?
We were not caught, "off wardress" as you suggest.
I am probably not divulging anything that can't be found on the web so I will tell you this and not tell you how it was done.
Some highly trained average soldiers listened regularly to a number of radio transmissions in various locations around the world, broadcasts by various military units doing what such units normally did.
We knew before the first brickbat was ever transshipped to a port someplace for loading aboard a vessel destined for points south.
I believe they said it would be for 13 months, not for the missiles but the personnel to ceremony them.
We knew from before the beginning of any logistics. We knew from simple extrapolation which exact type of ICBM's they would ship.
The U2 overflight item was designed to cover out intelligence source.
The military is not incompetent, that's our current political leadership and it has greately damaged out military, IMO.
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