Knowing One's Enemies / Ernest R. May.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

May, Ernest R., editor.

Series:

Princeton Legacy Library

Princeton Legacy Library ; 744

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intelligence service--History--20th century.

Intelligence service -- History -- 20th century.

Military intelligence--History--20th century.

Military intelligence -- History -- 20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (576 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [1986]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

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 / May, Ernest R.

2. Austria-Hungary / Stone, Norman

3. Imperial Germany / Herwig, Holger H.

4. The Russian Empire / Fuller, William C.

5. France and the German Menace / Andrew, Christopher M.

6. French Estimates of Germany's Operational War Plans / Tanenbaum, Jan Karl

7. Great Britain before 1914 / Kennedy, Paul M.

8. Italy before 1915: The Quandary of the Vulnerable / Gooch, John

PART TWO: THE SECOND WORLD WAR, WESTERN EUROPE

9. British Intelligence and the Coming of the Second World War in Europe / Watt, Donald Cameron

10. French Military Intelligence and Nazi Germany, 1938- 1939 / Young, Robert J.

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 / Erickson, John

14. Japanese Intelligence before the Second World War: "Best Case" Analysis / Barnhart, Michael A.

15. Great Britain's Assessment of Japan before the Outbreak of the Pacific War / Lowe, Peter

16. United States Views of Germany and Japan in 1941 / Kahn, David

Conclusions: Capabilities and Proclivities / May, Ernest R.

CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

1-4008-5606-X

OCLC:

1013945261