failure and success from Pearl Harbor to 9/11 and beyond Dahl, Erik J. creator text bibliography dcu 2013 monographic eng

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x, 277 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm 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 Introduction: Breaking the First Law of Intelligence Failure1. 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 AttackPart 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 TodayAppendix: Unsuccessful Plots and Attacks against American Targets, 1987-2012NotesBibliographyIndex Erik J. Dahl. Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-266) and index. n-us--- Intelligence service United States Servicio de inteligencia Estados Unidos National security United States Seguridad nacional Estados Unidos JK 468 D131i 2013 327.1273 9781589019980 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1589019989 (pbk. : alk. paper) 2012042488 DLC 121214 20230411090735.0 17562658 eng