McDermottRose McDermott is the David and Mariana Fisher University Professor of International Relations at Brown University and a Fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has held fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and the Women and Public Policy Program, all at Harvard University. She has been a fellow at the Stanford Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences twice. She is the author of four books, a co-editor of two additional volumes, and author of over a hundred academic articles across a wide variety of disciplines encompassing topics such as experimentation, emotion and decision making, and the biological and genetic bases of political behavior.

Bar-Joseph and McDermott develop a theoretical framework related to the human factor in explaining success and failure in three wars: the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941; the Korean War in 1950; and the Arab attack on Israel in 1973... Recommended.

• Contents Introduction Part One: The Theoretical Framework Chapter I. Surprise Attack: A Framework for DiscussionChapter II. Examining the Learning ProcessPart Two: The Empirical Evidence The First Dyad: Barbarossa and the Battle for MoscowCase Study I: The FailureCase Study II: Success: The Battle for Moscow The Second Dyad: The USA in the Korean War Case study I: Failing to Forecast the War Case Study II: Failure II: The Chinese Intervention of Fall 1950The Third Dyad: Intelligence Failure and Success in the War of Yom Kippur Case Study I: The FailureCase Study II: The SuccessChapter VI. Conclusions

McDermottRose McDermott is the David and Mariana Fisher University Professor of International Relations at Brown University and a Fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has held fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and the Women and Public Policy Program, all at Harvard University. She has been a fellow at the Stanford Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences twice. She is the author of four books, a co-editor of two additional volumes, and author of over a hundred academic articles across a wide variety of disciplines encompassing topics such as experimentation, emotion and decision making, and the biological and genetic bases of political behavior.

Bar-Joseph and McDermott develop a theoretical framework related to the human factor in explaining success and failure in three wars: the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941; the Korean War in 1950; and the Arab attack on Israel in 1973... Recommended.

• Contents Introduction Part One: The Theoretical Framework Chapter I. Surprise Attack: A Framework for DiscussionChapter II. Examining the Learning ProcessPart Two: The Empirical Evidence The First Dyad: Barbarossa and the Battle for MoscowCase Study I: The FailureCase Study II: Success: The Battle for Moscow The Second Dyad: The USA in the Korean War Case study I: Failing to Forecast the War Case Study II: Failure II: The Chinese Intervention of Fall 1950The Third Dyad: Intelligence Failure and Success in the War of Yom Kippur Case Study I: The FailureCase Study II: The SuccessChapter VI. Conclusions