Surprise Attack: The Victim's Perspective: The Victim's Perspective, with a New Preface

Kam Ephraim

ISBN 10: 0674013549 / ISBN 13: 9780674013544

Published by Harvard University Press, 2004

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pp. 304.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Surprise Attack: The Victim's Perspective: The Victim's Perspective, with a New Preface
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674013549
• ISBN 13: 9780674013544
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Ephraim Kam observes surprise attack through the eyes of its victim in order to understand the causes of the victim’s failure to anticipate the coming of war. Emphasizing the psychological aspect of warfare, Kam traces the behavior of the victim at various functional levels and from several points of view in order to examine the difficulties and mistakes that permit a nation to be taken by surprise. He argues that anticipation and prediction of a coming war are more complicated than any other issue of strategic estimation, involving such interdependent factors as analytical contradictions, judgmental biases, organizational obstacles, and political as well as military constraints.

About the Author

Ephraim Kam is Senior Research Fellow and former Deputy Director at the Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv, Israel.