Knowing One's Enemies: Intelligence Assessment Before Two World Wars

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Автор: May E.R.

Название: Knowing One's Enemies: Intelligence Assessment Before Two World Wars

Издательство: Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press

Год: 1986

Страниц: 476

Формат: pdf

Размер: 226 mb

Язык: английский

In essays that illuminate not only the recent past but shortcomings in today's intelligence assessments, sixteen experts show how prospective antagonists appraised each other prior to the World Wars. This cautionary tale warns that intelligence agencies can do certain things very well-but other things poorly, if at all.

CONTENTS:

Cabinet, Tsar, Kaiser: Three Approaches to Assessment - Ernest R. May

Austria-Hungary - Norman Stone

Imperial Germany - Holger H. Herwig

The Russian Empire - William C. Fuller, Jr.

France and the German Menace - Christopher M. Andrew

French Estimates of Germany's Operational War Plans - Jan Karl Tanenbaum

Great Britain Before 1914 - Paul M. Kennedy

Italy Before 1915: The Quandary of the Vulnerable - John Gooch

British Intelligence and the Coming of the Second World War in Europe - Donald Cameron Watt

French Military Intelligence and Nazi Germany 1938-1939 - Robert J. Young

National Socialist Germany: The Politics of Information - Michael Geyer

Fascist Italy Assesses Its Enemies 1935-1940 - MacGregor Knox

Threat Identification and Strategic Appraisal by the Soviet Union 1930-1941 - John Erickson

Japanese Intelligence before the Second World War: "Best Case" Analysis - Michael A. Barnhart

Great Britain's Assessment of Japan before the Outbreak of the Pacific War - Peter Lowe

United States Views of Germany and Italy in 1941 - David Kahn