Understanding Intelligence Failure - Warning, Response and Deterrence

List of contents

Preface
Introduction
1. Theory of Surprise
Part I: The Theory of Surprise Applied
2. Surprise at the Top of the World
3. Surprise and the Non-State Actor
4. Déjà Vu? Comparing Pearl Harbor and 9/11
Part II: Surprise and Deterrence Failure
5. The Balance of Power Paradox
6. Deterring the Weak: Problems and Prospects
Part III: Avoiding Surprise: Toward a New Intelligence Doctrine
7. Red Teaming Surprise
8. Indications and Warning in an Age of Uncertainty
9. From Combined Arms to Combined Intelligence: Philosophy, Doctrine and Operations
10. Conclusion

About the author

James J. Wirtz is Professor and Dean of the School of International Graduate Studies at the Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, California, and author/editor of numerous books, including, most recently, Intelligence: The Secret World of Spies, 4th edition (ed., with Loch Johnson, 2015).

Product details

• Authors: James Wirtz, James J Wirtz
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.11.2016
• EAN: 9781138942134
• ISBN: 978-1-138-94213-4
• No. of pages: 158
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology