Fixing the Facts : : National Security and the Politics of Intelligence / / Joshua Rovner.
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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Rovner, Joshua, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Fixing the Facts : National Security and the Politics of Intelligence / Joshua Rovner. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2011] ©2015 1 online resource (280 p.) : 1 line drawing, 5 tables text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Cornell Studies in Security Affairs Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. A Basic Problem: The Uncertain Role of Intelligence in National Security -- 2. Pathologies of Intelligence-Policy Relations -- 3. Policy Oversell and Politicization -- 4. The Johnson Administration and the Vietnam Estimates -- 5. The Nixon Administration and the Soviet Strategic Threat -- 6. The Ford Administration and the Team B Affair -- 7. Intelligence, Policy, and the War in Iraq -- 8. Politics, Politicization, and the Need for Secrecy -- Appendix A: Pathologies of Intelligence-Policy Relations -- Appendix B: Varieties of Politicization -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Intelligence service Political aspects United States. National security United States. Political Science & Political History. U.S. History. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International). bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 print 9781501700736 https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801463136 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801463136 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801463136/original |
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