Without Warning: Threat Assessment, Intelligence, and Global StruggleIn the last century, competition among the global powers has relied heavily upon the concept of war threat assessment. In Without Warning, accomplished scholar Mikhail Alexseev compares the intelligence priorities of principal decision makers in such various parts of the world as the Mongol Empire and Sung China (1206 1220), Great Britain and France (1783 1800), and the US and the Soviet Union (1975 1991). In his analysis Alexseev reveals that while