The October 7 intelligence failure did not begin with explosions. It began with warnings. In the months before the attack, surveillance soldiers monitoring the Gaza border reportedly flagged unusual activity. On the morning of October 7, one of them radioed that the fence was being breached. Hours later, she was killed. The deeper question is not only what was seen, but how it was interpreted.
This analysis examines how deterrence doctrine, institutional hierarchy, and signal filtering may have shaped the response. Intelligence systems rarely fail because information is absent. They fail when assumptions mute inconvenient signals. Read the full article here:
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