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Western intelligence and the collapse of the Soviet Union, 1980-1990 : ten years that did not shake the world

Author: David Arbel; Ran Edelist
Publisher: London ; Portland, OR : Frank Cass, 2003.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"When the worst terrorist atrocity in American history occurred on September 11, 2001, the intelligence agencies of the United States and most of the western world were taken by surprise. Ten years earlier, in 1991, those same organizations were surprised when the Soviet Empire collapsed. In both cases the intelligence establishment has invested enormous resources, compiled information, wrote detailed analytical  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: David Arbel; Ran Edelist
ISBN: 0714654019 9780714654010
OCLC Number: 51106906
Description: xiv, 338 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Surprise --
The Threat --
The Myth --
Conceptual Conformity --
The Great Surprise --
The Writing on the Wall --
Why the West Failed to See the Writing on the Wall --
Politics and Intelligence --
The Relevance of Strategic Intelligence --
Epilogue: From Strategic Blind Spot to Operational Blunder.
Other Titles: ʻIṿaron.
Responsibility: David Arbel and Ran Edelist.
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"When the worst terrorist atrocity in American history occurred on September 11, 2001, the intelligence agencies of the United States and most of the western world were taken by surprise. Ten years earlier, in 1991, those same organizations were surprised when the Soviet Empire collapsed. In both cases the intelligence establishment has invested enormous resources, compiled information, wrote detailed analytical papers and yet failed to provide an early warming of the impending Soviet collapse as well as the coming terrorist attack." "This book sets out to explain why western intelligence agencies failed to diagnose the Soviet Union's terminal condition, despite the many obvious symptoms, and worse, why they failed to convey what they did know to the political echelon."--BOOK JACKET.

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