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There's not so much about military intelligence in a musical, commonly (3,3)

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les mis

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'a musical commonly' is the definition.
(informal name for Les Miserables)

'there's not so much about military intelligence' is the wordplay.
'there's' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'not so' becomes 'less' (I've seen this before).
'much' means to remove the last letter (much but not all of the word).
'about military intelligence' becomes 'mis' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'less' with its last letter taken off is 'les'.
'les'+'mis' is 'LES MIS'.

'in' acts as a link.

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