TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dahl,Erik J.
TI  - Intelligence and surprise attack: failure and success from Pearl Harbor to 9/11 and beyond 
SN  - 9781589019980 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - JK 468 D131i 2013
U1  - 327.1273 
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Washington, DC
PB  - Georgetown University Press
KW  - Intelligence service
KW  - United States
KW  - Servicio de inteligencia
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - National security
KW  - Seguridad nacional
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-266) and index; 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
N2  - 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
ER  -