| Variant title |
Intelligence and United States foreign policy |
| Contents |
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. |
| Abstract |
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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-400) and index. |
| LCCN | 2010048141 |
| ISBN | 9780231157926 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0231157924 (cloth : alk. paper) |
