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 at the heart of recent national security controversies, including the 9/11 attacks and the war in Iraq. In both cases the relationship between intelligence and policy broke down-with disastrous consequences. In Fixing the Facts, Joshua Rovner explores the complex interaction between intelligence and policy and shines a spotlight on the problem of politicization. Major episodes in the history of American foreign policy have been closely tied to the manipulation of intelligence estimates. Rovner describes how the Johnson administration dealt with the intelligence community during the Vietnam War; how President Nixon and President Ford politicized estimates on the Soviet Union; and how pressure from the George W. Bush administration contributed to flawed intelligence on Iraq. He also compares the U.S. case with the British experience between 1998 and 2003, and demonstrates that high-profile government inquiries in both countries were fundamentally wrong about what happened before the war.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cornell University Press
ISBN-13
9780801448294
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109273288
Product Key Features
Author
Joshua Rovner
Publication Name
Fixing the Facts: National Security and the Politics of Intelligence
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Government
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
280 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
235mm
Item Width
155mm
Item Weight
28g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Joshua Rovner
Series Title
Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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