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        8. The Israeli recovery from the Egyptian Sagger missile surprise
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        Meir Finkel
        
                                    
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                                            Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Table of contents vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction 1
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                            Part one. The challenge of force planning facing future surprises
- 1. Prediction and intelligence: the dominant approach in force planning and its failure to answer the challenge of technological and doctrinal surprise 21
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                            Part two. Flexibility-based recovery— a theoretical view
- 2. Conceptual and doctrinal flexibility 55
- 3. Organizational and technological flexibility 73
- 4. Cognitive and command and control (c2) flexibility 98
- 5. The mechanism for lesson learning and rapid dissemination 111
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                            Part three. Recovery from surprise— a historical view
- 6. The German recovery from the surprise of British chaff 123
- 7. The German recovery from the soviet t-34 tank surprise 138
- 8. The Israeli recovery from the Egyptian Sagger missile surprise 150
- 9. The Israeli air force recovery from the Arab anti-aircraft missile surprise 164
- 10. The slow British recovery from the German armor and anti-tank tactics 179
- 11. The slow soviet recovery from the surprise of low-intensity conflict in Afghanistan 191
- 12. The french failure to recover from the surprise of the German blitzkrieg 205
- Summary and conclusions 223
- Appendixes to chapter 1 233
- Notes 249
- Bibliography 301
- Index 321
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Table of contents vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction 1
- 
                            Part one. The challenge of force planning facing future surprises
- 1. Prediction and intelligence: the dominant approach in force planning and its failure to answer the challenge of technological and doctrinal surprise 21
- 
                            Part two. Flexibility-based recovery— a theoretical view
- 2. Conceptual and doctrinal flexibility 55
- 3. Organizational and technological flexibility 73
- 4. Cognitive and command and control (c2) flexibility 98
- 5. The mechanism for lesson learning and rapid dissemination 111
- 
                            Part three. Recovery from surprise— a historical view
- 6. The German recovery from the surprise of British chaff 123
- 7. The German recovery from the soviet t-34 tank surprise 138
- 8. The Israeli recovery from the Egyptian Sagger missile surprise 150
- 9. The Israeli air force recovery from the Arab anti-aircraft missile surprise 164
- 10. The slow British recovery from the German armor and anti-tank tactics 179
- 11. The slow soviet recovery from the surprise of low-intensity conflict in Afghanistan 191
- 12. The french failure to recover from the surprise of the German blitzkrieg 205
- Summary and conclusions 223
- Appendixes to chapter 1 233
- Notes 249
- Bibliography 301
- Index 321