Lede: The origins of Israel's intelligence failure on the Hamas attacks can be
traced to the decision to rely on AI instead of the contrarian analysis born of
the earlier intelligence failure of the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
As the scope and scale of the Hamas surprise attack on Israel becomes clearer,
one question emerges more than any other from the detritus of the battlefield:
How did such a massive, complex undertaking escape the notice of Israel's
vaunted intelligence service?
An equally important question is why wasn't this attack detected by the
U.S. intelligence community as well, given the massive expenditures made in
countering terrorism since the terrorist attacks on the U.S. homeland of
September 11, 2001?
The answers lie in the history of success Israel has enjoyed in identifying and
responding to Hamas operations in the past, success which manifested itself into
a culture of complacency, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of Israeli
citizens - the very people the intelligence services were dedicated to protect.
The fact that this attack took place 50 years and a day from when Israel
suffered what had been - up until this moment - Israel's greatest intelligence
failure, the 1973 Yom Kippur War, only reinforces the depth of the failure that
transpired.
-- Cont'd at https://consortiumnews.com/2023/10/08/scott-ritter-israels-massive-intelligence-failure/
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