Fixing the Facts National Security and the Politics of Intelligence

Name: Fixing the Facts National Security and the Politics of Intelligence
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ISBN: 9780801448294

ISBN-10: 0801448298

ISBN-13: 9780801448294

Edition: 2015

Authors: Joshua Rovner

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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…

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List price: $43.95
Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 7/26/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 280
Size: 7.01" wide x 9.49" long x 0.92" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Joshua Rovner is the John Goodwin Tower Professor of International Politics and National Security at Southern Methodist University, where he also serves as Director of Studies at the Tower Center for Political Studies.



Preface



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



Pathologies of Intelligence-Policy Relations



Varieties of Politicization


Notes


Index