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Intelligence and U.S. foreign policy : Iraq, 9/11, and misguided reform
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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 cre...
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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- Creator
- Paul R. Pillar
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Columbia University Press, [2011]
- ©2011
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 413 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780231157926, 0231157924, 9780231527804, 0231527802
- OCLC
- ocn682920948
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [357]-400) and index.
- 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