Are unaware Military Intelligence experts cocked up (7)
I believe the answer is:
misknow
'up' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are verbs in their base form.
Maybe they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'are unaware military intelligence experts cocked' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'intelligence' could be 'mi' and 'mi' is present in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for misknow that I've seen is " Get a false understanding".)