Paradoxes of Strategic Intelligence

Betts, Richard K.; Mahnken, Thomas

• Preface, Acknowledgements, Notes on Contributors, 1 Intelligence and the Problem of Strategic Surprise, 2 Politicization of Intelligence: Costs and Benefits, 3 Intelligence Failures: Forecasting and the Lessons of Epistemology, 4 Theory of Surprise, 5 ‘FORTITUDE’ in Context: The Evolution of British Military Deception in Two World Wars, 1914–1945, 6 Intelligence Failure and the Need for Cognitive Closure: The Case of Yom Kippur, 7 Grant vs. Sherman: Paradoxes of Intelligence and Combat Leadership, Index

'Admirers of the late Michael Handel will welcome this short volume of essays' - Foreign Affairs