Intelligence and Surprise Attack - Failure and Success From Pearl Harbor to 9/11 and Beyond

Klappentext Examines why surprise attacks often succeed even though warnings in many cases had been available beforehand. This book offers a new understanding of cases such as Pearl Harbor, and provides comprehensive analysis of the intelligence picture just before the 9/11 attacks, challenging some of the findings of the 9/11 Commission Report. Zusammenfassung Examines why surprise attacks often succeed even though warnings in many cases had been available beforehand. This book offers a new understanding of cases such as Pearl Harbor! and provides comprehensive analysis of the intelligence picture just before the 9/11 attacks! challenging some of the findings of the 9/11 Commission Report. Introduction: Breaking the First Law of Intelligence Failure 1. Why Does Intelligence Fail, and How Can It Succeed? Part I: The Problem of Conventional Surprise Attack 2. Pearl Harbor: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom3. The Battle of Midway: Explaining Intelligence Success4. Testing the Argument: Classic Cases of Surprise Attack Part II: The Problem of Terrorist Surprise Attack 5. The East Africa Embassy Bombings: Disaster despite Warning6. New York City: Preventing a Day of Terror7. The 9/11 Attacks: A New Explanation8. Testing the Argument: Why Do Terrorist Plots Fail? Conclusion: Preventing Surprise Attacks Today Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Erik J. Dahl, Erik J. (U.S. Naval Postgraduate School) Dahl
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.07.2013
• EAN: 9781589019980
• ISBN: 978-1-58901-998-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Intelligence and Surprise Attack; Intelligence and Surprise Attack
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education