Intelligence Success and Failure - The Human Factor

Zusatztext Bar-Joseph and McDermott develop a theoretical framework related to the human factor in explaining success and failure in three wars: the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941; the Korean War in 1950; and the Arab attack on Israel in 1973... Recommended. Informationen zum Autor McDermottRose McDermott is the David and Mariana Fisher University Professor of International Relations at Brown University and a Fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has held fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and the Women and Public Policy Program, all at Harvard University. She has been a fellow at the Stanford Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences twice. She is the author of four books, a co-editor of two additional volumes, and author of over a hundred academic articles across a wide variety of disciplines encompassing topics such as experimentation, emotion and decision making, and the biological and genetic bases of political behavior. Klappentext Intelligence Success and Failure presents a new theory in the study of strategic surprise that claims the key explanation for warning failure is not unintentional action, but rather, motivated biases in key intelligence and central leaders that null any sense of doubt prior to surprise attacks. Zusammenfassung Intelligence Success and Failure presents a new theory in the study of strategic surprise that claims the key explanation for warning failure is not unintentional action, but rather, motivated biases in key intelligence and central leaders that null any sense of doubt prior to surprise attacks. Inhaltsverzeichnis f Rose

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• Authors: Uri Bar-Joseph, Uri (Professor of Political Science Bar-Joseph, Bar-Joseph Uri, Rose Mcdermott, Rose Bar-Joseph Mcdermott, McDermott Rose
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9780199341733
• ISBN: 978-0-19-934173-3
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International), POLITICAL SCIENCE / Intelligence & Espionage, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Defence strategy, planning & research, Political science & theory, Political Economy, Political science and theory, Military and defence strategy, Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies