عنوان

Fixing the facts :

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0801463130

(Number (ISBN

9780801463136

Erroneous ISBN

0801448298

Erroneous ISBN

9780801448294

Erroneous ISBN

9781501700736

Title Proper

Fixing the facts :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

national security and the politics of intelligence /

First Statement of Responsibility

Joshua Rovner.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Ithaca :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cornell University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2011.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (275 pages)

Series Title

Cornell studies in security affairs

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

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.

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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. -- Book jacket.

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

JSTOR

Stock Number

22573/ctt4rt4c

Title

Fixing the facts.

International Standard Book Number

9780801448294

Intelligence service-- Political aspects-- United States.

National security-- United States.

Diplomatic relations.

Intelligence service-- Political aspects.

National security.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Government-- International.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- International Relations-- General.

United States, Foreign relations, 1945-1989.

United States, Foreign relations, 1989-

United States.

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POL-- 040020

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Edition

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Book number

Rovner, Joshua,1976-

Date of Transaction

20200822130736.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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