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Knowing One's Enemies / ed. by Ernest R. May.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Legacy Library ; 744Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©1985Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (578 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691610177
  • 9781400856060
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 327.1/2/09 19
LOC classification:
  • UB250 .K58 2014
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF MAPS AND CHART -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS USED IN FOOTNOTES -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE: THE FIRST WORLD WAR -- 1. Cabinet, Tsar, Kaiser: Three Approaches to Assessment -- 2. Austria-Hungary -- 3. Imperial Germany -- 4. The Russian Empire -- 5. France and the German Menace -- 6. French Estimates of Germany's Operational War Plans -- 7. Great Britain before 1914 -- 8. Italy before 1915: The Quandary of the Vulnerable -- PART TWO: THE SECOND WORLD WAR, WESTERN EUROPE -- 9. British Intelligence and the Coming of the Second World War in Europe -- 10. French Military Intelligence and Nazi Germany, 1938- 1939 -- 11. National Socialist Germany: The Politics of Information -- 12. Fascist Italy Assesses Its Enemies, 1935-1940 -- PART THREE: THE SECOND WORLD WAR, EASTERN EUROPE AND BEYOND -- 13. Threat Identification and Strategic Appraisal by the Soviet Union, 1930-1941 -- 14. Japanese Intelligence before the Second World War: "Best Case" Analysis -- 15. Great Britain's Assessment of Japan before the Outbreak of the Pacific War -- 16. United States Views of Germany and Japan in 1941 -- Conclusions: Capabilities and Proclivities -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX
Summary: 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.Originally published in 1985.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF MAPS AND CHART -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS USED IN FOOTNOTES -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE: THE FIRST WORLD WAR -- 1. Cabinet, Tsar, Kaiser: Three Approaches to Assessment -- 2. Austria-Hungary -- 3. Imperial Germany -- 4. The Russian Empire -- 5. France and the German Menace -- 6. French Estimates of Germany's Operational War Plans -- 7. Great Britain before 1914 -- 8. Italy before 1915: The Quandary of the Vulnerable -- PART TWO: THE SECOND WORLD WAR, WESTERN EUROPE -- 9. British Intelligence and the Coming of the Second World War in Europe -- 10. French Military Intelligence and Nazi Germany, 1938- 1939 -- 11. National Socialist Germany: The Politics of Information -- 12. Fascist Italy Assesses Its Enemies, 1935-1940 -- PART THREE: THE SECOND WORLD WAR, EASTERN EUROPE AND BEYOND -- 13. Threat Identification and Strategic Appraisal by the Soviet Union, 1930-1941 -- 14. Japanese Intelligence before the Second World War: "Best Case" Analysis -- 15. Great Britain's Assessment of Japan before the Outbreak of the Pacific War -- 16. United States Views of Germany and Japan in 1941 -- Conclusions: Capabilities and Proclivities -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX

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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.Originally published in 1985.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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