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Fixing the Facts : National Security and the Politics of Intelligence /

What is the role of intelligence agencies in strategy and policy? How do policymakers use (or misuse) intelligence estimates? When do intelligence-policy relations work best? How do intelligence-policy failures influence threat assessment, military strategy, and foreign policy? These questions are a...

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Auteur principal: Rovner, Joshua, 1976- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2011.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • A basic problem : the uncertain role of intelligence in national security
  • Pathologies of intelligence-policy relations
  • Policy oversell and politicization
  • The Johnson administration and the Vietnam estimates
  • The Nixon administration and the Soviet strategic threat
  • The Ford administration and the Team B affair
  • Intelligence, policy, and the war in Iraq
  • Politics, politicization, and the need for secrecy.