Understanding Intelligence Failure: Warning, Response and Deterrence

by James J. Wirtz

Book Overview

This collection, comprising key works by James J. Wirtz, explains how different threat perceptions can lead to strategic surprise attack, intelligence failure and the failure of deterrence.

This volume adopts a strategist's view of the issue of surprise and intelligence failure by placing these phenomena in the context of conflict between strong and weak actors in world affairs. A two-level theory explains the incentives and perceptions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138942138
• ISBN13: 9781138942134
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"