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Knowing One's Enemies /

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 oth...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: May, Ernest R. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2014
Colección:Princeton legacy library.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a The First World War. 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 -- The Second World War. Western Europe. 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 -- The Second World War. Eastern Europe and beyond. 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 Japan in 1941 / David Kahn -- Conclusions : capabilities and proclivities / Ernest R. May. 
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