The COVID-19 Intelligence Failure
why warning was not enough
$196.35
- Hardcover
232 pages
- Release Date
31 January 2023
Summary
The Pandemic Blindspot: Unmasking the COVID-19 Intelligence Failure
An in-depth analysis of why COVID-19 warnings failed and how to avert the next disaster.
Epidemiologists and national security agencies warned for years about the potential for a deadly pandemic, but in the end global surveillance and warning systems were not enough to avert the COVID-19 disaster. In The COVID-19 Intelligence Failure, Erik J. Dahl demonstrates that understanding how intelligence warnings wor…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781647123055 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1647123054 |
| Author: | Erik J. Dahl |
| Publisher: | Georgetown University Press |
| Imprint: | Georgetown University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 232 |
| Release Date: | 31 January 2023 |
| Weight: | 472g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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Critics Review
Overall, Erik Dahl’s book is a most worthy and enjoyable read. It adds to the important academic and policy literature regarding debates on the COVID-19 pandemic and its origins, as well as its profound intelligence failure.
* The Cipher Brief *Dahl has strengthened our understanding of the costly intelligence failures that contributed to so much preventable death and illness from COVID-19 and identifies concrete ways to mitigate future failures when new threats emerge in infectious diseases and elsewhere.
* Intelligence & National Security *The COVID-19 Intelligence Failure presents an empirically rich and compelling contribution to our understanding of how the intelligence community performed in the lead-up to the pandemic and the critical need for reform.
* Political Science Quarterly *A timely analysis of one of the more impactful global events of the modern era, The COVID-19 Intelligence Failure retells the evolution of the pandemic through the lens of global intelligence activities and the corresponding response….in a manner that is specific yet concise and readable, with extensive chapter notes worth paying attention to.
* Air & Space Power Journal (ASPJ) *About The Author
Erik J. Dahl
Erik J. Dahl is an associate professor in the National Security Affairs Department and a faculty member of the Center for Homeland Defense and Security at the US Naval Postgraduate School. He is the author of Intelligence and Surprise Attack: Failure and Success from Pearl Harbor to 9⁄11 and Beyond (Georgetown University Press, 2013).
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