Ebook: Knowing One's Enemies: Intelligence Assessment Before Two World Wars

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986. — 476 p.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.Cabinet, Tsar, Kaiser: Three Approaches to Assessment - Ernest R. May
Austria-Hungary - Norman Stone
Imperial Germany - Holger H. Herwig
The Russian Empire - William C. Fuller, Jr.
France and the German Menace - Christopher M. Andrew
French Estimates of Germany's Operational War Plans - Jan Karl Tanenbaum
Great Britain Before 1914 - Paul M. Kennedy
Italy Before 1915: The Quandary of the Vulnerable - John Gooch
British Intelligence and the Coming of the Second World War in Europe - Donald Cameron Watt
French Military Intelligence and Nazi Germany 1938-1939 - Robert J. Young
National Socialist Germany: The Politics of Information - Michael Geyer
Fascist Italy Assesses Its Enemies 1935-1940 - MacGregor Knox
Threat Identification and Strategic Appraisal by the Soviet Union 1930-1941 - John Erickson
Japanese Intelligence before the Second World War: "Best Case" Analysis - Michael A. Barnhart
Great Britain's Assessment of Japan before the Outbreak of the Pacific War - Peter Lowe
United States Views of Germany and Italy in 1941 - David Kahn