Why Intelligence Fails

by Robert Jervis

Book Overview

The U.S. government spends enormous resources each year on the gathering and analysis of intelligence, yet the history of American foreign policy is littered with missteps and misunderstandings that have resulted from intelligence failures. In Why Intelligence Fails, Robert 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801447852
• ISBN13: 9780801447853
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher