Intelligence Success and Failure
McDermott, Rose; Bar-Joseph, Uri
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Description for Intelligence Success and Failure
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: JPA; JPQB; JWK; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
The study of strategic surprise has long concentrated on important failures that resulted in catastrophes such as Pearl Harbor and the September 11th attacks, and the majority of previously published research in the field determines that such large-scale military failures often stem from defective information-processing systems. Intelligence Success and Failure challenges this common assertion that catastrophic surprise attacks are the unmistakable products of warning failure alone. Further, Uri Bar-Joseph and Rose McDermott approach this topic uniquely by highlighting the successful cases of strategic surprise, as well as the failures, from a psychological perspective. This book delineates the critical role ... Read more
The study of strategic surprise has long concentrated on important failures that resulted in catastrophes such as Pearl Harbor and the September 11th attacks, and the majority of previously published research in the field determines that such large-scale military failures often stem from defective information-processing systems. Intelligence Success and Failure challenges this common assertion that catastrophic surprise attacks are the unmistakable products of warning failure alone. Further, Uri Bar-Joseph and Rose McDermott approach this topic uniquely by highlighting the successful cases of strategic surprise, as well as the failures, from a psychological perspective. This book delineates the critical role ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199341740
SKU
V9780199341740
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About McDermott, Rose; Bar-Joseph, Uri
Uri Bar-Joseph is a Professor at the School of Political Science, Haifa University, Israel. He concentrates on strategic and intelligence studies, especially focusing on the Arab-Israeli conflict and Israeli security policy. In addition to numerous refereed journal articles and book chapters, he wrote six books, the most recent of which is The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel (2016). ... Read more
Reviews for Intelligence Success and Failure
"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."
CHOICE "Psychological dysfunctions have long been a preoccupation of post-mortems on intelligence failures. ... Read more
CHOICE "Psychological dysfunctions have long been a preoccupation of post-mortems on intelligence failures. ... Read more