Opinion by Gershom Gorenberg: Intelligence agencies have a poor record of crucial predictions lately, at least of those that have become public knowledge.
In early April 1940, British military intelligence had multiple signs that Germany would invade Norway — andbecause, logically, Germany would target Norway and Sweden together, and too few German divisions were available to conquer both countries.
On the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, with deciphered messages showing that Japan was about to attack the United States, Army Chief of Staff George Marshall to warning Manila because, logically, that’s where Japan was likely to strike. His choice contributed to a fateful delay in warning commanders at Pearl Harbor., it would not do so until it had the weapons it needed to retake all of Sinai. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat followed different logic.
As for Zelensky, no one foresaw that he would mobilize the Ukrainian language and send it into battle, to borrow what journalist
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