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Why Intelligence Fails : Lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs SeriesPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (249 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801458859
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Why Intelligence FailsDDC classification:
  • 955.05/3
LOC classification:
  • JK468
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Adventures in Intelligence -- 2. Failing to See That the Shah Was in Danger: Introduction, Postmortem, and CIA Comments -- Analysis of NFAC's Performance on Iran's Domestic Crisis, Mid-1977-7 November 1978 -- CIA Comments on the Report -- 3. The Iraq WMD Intelligence Failure: What Everyone Knows Is Wrong -- 4. The Politics and Psychology of Intelligence and Intelligence Reform -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: Jervis examines the politics and psychology of two of the more spectacular intelligence failures in recent memory: the mistaken belief that the regime of the Shah in Iran was secure and stable in 1978, and the 2002 claim that Iraq had active WMD programs.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Adventures in Intelligence -- 2. Failing to See That the Shah Was in Danger: Introduction, Postmortem, and CIA Comments -- Analysis of NFAC's Performance on Iran's Domestic Crisis, Mid-1977-7 November 1978 -- CIA Comments on the Report -- 3. The Iraq WMD Intelligence Failure: What Everyone Knows Is Wrong -- 4. The Politics and Psychology of Intelligence and Intelligence Reform -- Notes -- Index.

Jervis examines the politics and psychology of two of the more spectacular intelligence failures in recent memory: the mistaken belief that the regime of the Shah in Iran was secure and stable in 1978, and the 2002 claim that Iraq had active WMD programs.

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