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Why intelligence fails

Why intelligence fails

Robert Jervis · 2010 · 238 pages

Intelligence serviceWeapons of mass destructionCase studiesUnited StatesMilitary intelligenceEvaluation

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Jervis examines the politics and psychology of two of the more spectacular intelligence failures in recent memory: the mistaken belief that the regime of the Shah in Iran was secure and stable in 1978, and the 2002 claim that Iraq had active WMD programs.

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