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Record Nr.

UNINA9910164926603321

Autore

Bar-Joseph Uri

Titolo

Intelligence success and failure : the human factor / / Uri Bar-Joseph and Rose McDermott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2017

ISBN

0-19-067699-X

0-19-067700-7

0-19-934175-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 pages)

Classificazione

POL036000POL012000PSY000000

Disciplina

355.3432

Soggetti

Military intelligence - Decision making - Psychological aspects

Surprise (Military science)

World War, 1939-1945 - Military intelligence - Soviet Union

orean War, 1950-1953 - Military intelligence - United States

Israel-Arab War, 1973 - Military intelligence - Israel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One: The Theoretical Framework -- Chapter I. Surprise Attack: A Framework for Discussion -- Chapter II. Examining the Learning Process -- Part Two: The Empirical Evidence -- The First Dyad: Barbarossa and the Battle for Moscow -- Case Study I: The Failure -- Case Study II: Success: The Battle for Moscow -- 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 -- The Third Dyad: Intelligence Failure and Success in the War of Yom Kippur -- Case Study I: The Failure -- Case Study II: The Success -- Chapter VI. Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

'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.