my name is vince houghton, i'm the museum's historian and curator, and i would like to welcome you to another briefing. today's subject will be the american revolution and intelligence, and we'll joined by an exceptional author who i'll introduce, but before that say a couple words about the revolution itself and history about intelligence. this is one subject that is vastly underrepresented in historical literature, the impact of intelligence on the revolution. most of us when we went through school and learned about the revolution, even at college level, don't delve into the importance of intelligence operations on the american revolution. and that's quite problematic because if you look at the strategic imbalance of the revolution, the advantages that the british had over the americans, by ignoring the intelligence aspect, you don't get the story about how the united states wins the war. the british had almost every advantage. they had a modern, professional army that had been battle tested whereas the colonists did not, they had a small continental army reinforced by the militia t

my name is vince houghton, i'm the museum's historian and curator, and i would like to welcome you to another briefing. today's subject will be the american revolution and intelligence, and we'll joined by an exceptional author who i'll introduce, but before that say a couple words about the reti