Enigma: The Enigma of Israel’s Intelligence Failure almost 45 years ago.
In this 2017 article Bruce Riedel, one of the most influential Security experts, analyses Israel’s intelligence failures in the run up to the Yom Kippur War in 1973. Intelligence actors, policy makers and public opinion could not believe that Arabs would attack, because they were convinced that they would lose, “a classic example of how intelligence fails when the policy and intelligence communities build a feedback loop that reinforces their prejudices”
Read the full article here.