Knowing One's Enemies

✍ Scribed by Ernest R. May (editor)

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 575
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library; 744
• Edition: Course Book
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

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✦ Table of Contents

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