Intelligence success and failure : the human factor /
"The study of strategic surprise has consistently concentrated on important failures that resulted in catastrophes such as Pearl Harbor, Barbarossa, and the September 11th attack. Intelligence Success and Failure challenges the assertion that such failures result from defective information-proc...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I. The Theoretical Framework. 1. Surprise Attack: A Framework for Discussion
- 2. Examining the Learning Process
- Part II. The Empirical Evidence. 3. The First Dyad: Barbarossa and the Battle for Moscow
- Case Study I. The Failure
- Case Study II. Success: The Battle for Moscow
- 4. The Second Dyad: The USA in the Korean War
- Case study I. Failing to Forecast the War
- Case Study II. Failure II: The Chinese Intervention of Fall 1950
- 5. The Third Dyad: Intelligence Failure and Success in the War of Yom Kippur
- Case Study I. The Failure
- Case Study II. The Success
- 6. Conclusions.