Terror in Our Time
Author: Richard Wilmer Rowan
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Published: 1941
Total Pages: 456
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Author: Richard Wilmer Rowan
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Published: 1941
Total Pages: 456
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard Wilmer Rowan
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Published: 2013-10
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9781294058113
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Author: Richard Wilmer Rowan
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Published: 1941
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Larry Hancock
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2015-09-01
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 1619026570
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSurprise Attack explores sixty plus years of military and terror threats against the United States. It examines the intelligence tools and practices that provided warnings of those attacks and evaluates the United States' responses, both in preparedness – and most importantly – the effectiveness of our military and national command authority. Contrary to common claims, the historical record now shows that warnings, often very solid warnings, have preceded almost all such attacks, both domestic and international. Intelligence practices developed early in the Cold War, along with intelligence collection techniques have consistently produced accurate warnings for our national security decision makers. Surprise Attack traces the evolution and application of those practices and explores why such warnings have often failed to either interdict or intercept actual attacks. Going beyond warnings, Surprise Attack explores the real world performance of the nation's military and civilian command and control history – exposing disconnects in the chain of command, failures of command and control and fundamental performance issues with national command authority. America has faced an ongoing series of threats, from the attacks on Hawaii and the Philippines in 1941, through the crises and confrontations of the Cold War, global attacks on American personnel and facilities to the contemporary violence of jihadi terrorism. With a detailed study of those threats, the attacks related to them, and America's response, a picture of what works – and what doesn't – emerges. The attacks have been tragic and we see the defensive preparations and response often ineffective. Yet lessons can be learned from the experience; Surprise Attack represents a comprehensive effort to identify and document those lessons.
Author: Erik J. Dahl
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: 2013-07-19
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1589019989
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow can the United States avoid a future surprise attack on the scale of 9/11 or Pearl Harbor, in an era when such devastating attacks can come not only from nation states, but also from terrorist groups or cyber enemies? Intelligence and Surprise Attack examines why surprise attacks often succeed even though, in most cases, warnings had been available beforehand. Erik J. Dahl challenges the conventional wisdom about intelligence failure, which holds that attacks succeed because important warnings get lost amid noise or because intelligence officials lack the imagination and collaboration to “connect the dots” of available information. Comparing cases of intelligence failure with intelligence success, Dahl finds that the key to success is not more imagination or better analysis, but better acquisition of precise, tactical-level intelligence combined with the presence of decision makers who are willing to listen to and act on the warnings they receive from their intelligence staff. The book offers a new understanding of classic cases of conventional and terrorist attacks such as Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Midway, and the bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The book also presents a comprehensive analysis of the intelligence picture before the 9/11 attacks, making use of new information available since the publication of the 9/11 Commission Report and challenging some of that report’s findings.
Author: Richard A. Posner
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780742549470
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPosner discusses the utter futilty of this reform act in a searing critique of the 9/11 Commission, its recommendations, Congress's role in making law, and the law's inability to do what it is intended to do.
Author: Steven E. Maffeo
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 76
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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 77
ISBN-13: 1428993274
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. War Department. Library
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Published: 1946
Total Pages: 388
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ladislas Farago
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 728
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