http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/authors/2982/william-thomas Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Mon, 18 May 2026 19:03:58 -0400 Mon, 18 May 2026 19:03:58 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1145/are-intelligence-failures-inevitable By William Thomas - The “Great Game”, as Rudyard Kipling famously referred to the art of Intelligence, is a “game” that comes with a large slice one of chance, and just like any other game there is as much chance of losing as there is of winning. As Shulsky illuminates above there is a cast iron guarantee that with the pursuit of intelligence there comes intelligence failure. This work will examine why this is so, drawing on the examples of failure as regards to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. This case shows a range of failures at different levels of the intelligence process... Fri, 01 Jan 1999 12:00 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1145/are-intelligence-failures-inevitable