Intelligence and U.S. foreign policy [electronic resource] : Iraq, 9/11, and misguided reform / Paul R. Pillar.

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pillar, Paul R., 1947-
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, c2011.
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Intelligence and United States foreign policy
Intelligence and U.S. foreign policy: Iraq, 9/11, and misguided reform
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-400) and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
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650 0 |a Intelligence service  |z United States. 
650 0 |a Iraq War, 2003-2011. 
650 0 |a September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001. 
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