“The failure of British planning for war in the Far East demonstrates the importance of constantly questioning ‘known knowns’, and particularly highlights the danger of believing an enemy to be wholly understood.” – Morgan Hanby, a Visiting Fellow at CHACR, cites the fall of Singapore in 1942 as an example of the risks associated with making assumptions about adversaries.

 
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