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.
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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 |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
Contents:
- 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.