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Polemology --- Deception (Military science) --- Inlichtingsdiensten [Militaire ] --- Intelligence [Military ] --- Krijgslisten --- Militaire inlichtingsdiensten --- Military surprise --- Renseignement militaire --- Renseignements militaires [Service de ] --- Renseignements militaires [Service des ] --- Ruses de guerre --- Service des renseignements militaires --- Services de renseignements militaires --- Services des renseignements militaires --- Stratagèmes --- Surprise [military science] --- Surprise [science militaire] --- Surprise attacks --- Verrassing [krijgskunde] --- Handel, Michael I. --- Military intelligence

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Ephraim Kam observes surprise attack through the eyes of its victim in order to understand the causes of the victim's failure to anticipate the coming of war. Emphasing the psychological aspect of warfare, Kam traces the behavior of the victim at various functional levels and from several points of view in order to examine the difficulties and mistakes that permit a nation to be taken by surprise. He argues that anticipation and prediction of a coming war are more complicated than any other issue of strategic estimation, involving such interdependent factors as analytical contradictions, judgemental biases, organizational obstacles, and political as well as military constraints. Surprise Attack: The Victim's Perspective offers implications based on the intelligence perspective, providing both historical background and scientific analysis that draws from the author's vast experience. The book is of utmost value to all those engaged in intelligence work, and to those whose operational or political responsibility brings them in touch with intelligence assessments and the need to authenticate and then adopt them or discount them. Similarly, the book will interest any reader intrigued by decision-making processes that influence individuals and nations at war, and sometimes even shape national destiny.--Ehud Barak, Former Prime Minister of Israel

Surprise (Military science) --- Military art and science. --- International relations. --- Preemptive attack (Military science) --- Military history, Modern --- Anticipatory self-defense (Military science) --- Preemption (Military science) --- Preemptive strikes (Military science) --- Preemptive warfare --- Military art and science --- Strategy --- Coexistence --- Foreign affairs --- Foreign policy --- Foreign relations --- Global governance --- Interdependence of nations --- International affairs --- Peaceful coexistence --- World order --- National security --- Sovereignty --- World politics --- Fighting --- Military power --- Military science --- Warfare --- Warfare, Primitive --- Naval art and science --- War --- Military surprise --- Surprise attacks --- International relations

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'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.

Military intelligence --- Surprise (Military science) --- World War, 1939-1945 --- orean War, 1950-1953 --- Israel-Arab War, 1973 --- Decision making --- Psychological aspects. --- Arab-Israel War, 1973 --- October Middle East War, 1973 --- Yom Kippur War, 1973 --- Arab-Israeli conflict --- European War, 1939-1945 --- Second World War, 1939-1945 --- World War 2, 1939-1945 --- World War II, 1939-1945 --- World War Two, 1939-1945 --- WW II (World War, 1939-1945) --- WWII (World War, 1939-1945) --- History, Modern --- Military surprise --- Surprise attacks --- Strategy --- Information warfare --- Intelligence service --- Deception (Military science)