I’m late to the party and guessing others have already said this but: we often say “intelligence failure” before we know anything and then learn it was, in fact, a POLICY failure made with decent intelligence (eg: 9/11 and months of intel to Bush admin culminating in “Bin Laden determined to strike in US”).
I’m late to the party and guessing others have already said this but: we often say “intelligence failure” before we know anything and then learn it was, in fact, a POLICY failure made with decent intelligence (eg: 9/11 and months of intel to Bush admin culminating in “Bin Laden determined to strike in US”).
My suspicion is the Yom Kippur parallel will prove true in this sense: that warnings came from intelligence and that Netanyahu’s too-right cabinet was unable - through bigotry and hubris - to think an attack was possible. We will see.
I’m late to the party and guessing others have already said this but: we often say “intelligence failure” before we know anything and then learn it was, in fact, a POLICY failure made with decent intelligence (eg: 9/11 and months of intel to Bush admin culminating in “Bin Laden determined to strike in US”).
My suspicion is the Yom Kippur parallel will prove true in this sense: that warnings came from intelligence and that Netanyahu’s too-right cabinet was unable - through bigotry and hubris - to think an attack was possible. We will see.