The COVID-19 Intelligence Failure, 9781647123062
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Warnings ignored, disaster struck: Learn how to avert the next pandemic.

The COVID-19 Intelligence Failure

why warning was not enough

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  • Paperback

    232 pages

  • Release Date

    31 January 2023

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Summary

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 Blindspot: Unmasking the COVID-19 Intelligence Failure, Erik J. Dahl demonstrates that understanding how intellig…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781647123062
ISBN-10:1647123062
Author:Erik J. Dahl
Publisher:Georgetown University Press
Imprint:Georgetown University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:232
Release Date:31 January 2023
Weight:295g
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm
What They're Saying

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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