>> when you have inside knowledge of
>> anything, much of which is not in the public domain books on the subject can
>> seem a little lacking.
I'm sure that's true. But isn't there a counter-argument that people who are deeply immersed in something might not appreciate the wider issues and context?
Just thinking along the naval lines - there would have been people in the navy before the war who knew everything there was to be known about battleships, and would have found any book on the subject lacking in knowledge and depth. But what they didn't know was that the battleship had become obsolete. They knew how the loos worked, but not that a battleship without air cover was worthless, and that within a few years the navy was to fire its last ever broadside at another battleship.
I'm not saying submarines are obsolete, but one day they will be. Who will be the first to realise that - submariners?
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Would it interest ON I wonder? 
Would it interest ON I wonder?