Intelligence and Surprise Attack: Failure and Success from Pearl Harbor to 9/11 and Beyond - Paperback

by Erik J. Dahl (Author)

Intelligence and Surprise Attack examines why surprise attacks often succeed even though warnings in many cases had been available beforehand. Dahl challenges the conventional wisdom about intelligence failure, which holds that attacks succeed because warnings get lost amid noise and intelligence officials lack the imagination to 'connect the dots'.

Author Biography

Erik J. Dahl is an assistant professor of national security affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He is also a faculty member of the Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS) at the Naval Postgraduate School. Previously, he was a fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, an instructor of joint military operations at the Naval War College, and served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy.