| Description |
xvi, 413 pages ; 24 cm |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-400) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: A comforting explanation for calamity -- Weapons of mass destruction and the Iraq war -- Alternative visions of the Iraq war -- Congress and the politics of the Iraq war -- Great decisions and the irrelevance of intelligence -- Politicization -- Scapegoats and spectator sport -- The never-ending issue -- Catharsis and 9/11 -- Responses to catharsis -- The illusion of reform -- Real reform -- Adapting policy to uncertainty. |
| Summary |
Discusses the interaction between intelligence gathering and policy making, showing how little policy-making is guided by intelligence and what intelligence reform will do (and has done) to the creation of policy. |
| Subject |
Intelligence service -- United States.
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Iraq War, 2003-2011.
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September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
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| Added Title |
Intelligence and United States foreign policy |
| ISBN |
9780231157926 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0231157924 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780231527804 (electronic) |
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0231527802 (electronic) |
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