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John Diamond - The CIA and the Culture of Failure: U.S. Intelligence from the End of the Cold War to the Invasion of Iraq - 9780804756013 - V9780804756013
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The CIA and the Culture of Failure: U.S. Intelligence from the End of the Cold War to the Invasion of Iraq

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Description for The CIA and the Culture of Failure: U.S. Intelligence from the End of the Cold War to the Invasion of Iraq Hardback. The CIA and the Culture of Failure follows the CIA through a series of crises from the Soviet collapse to the war in Iraq and explains the political pressures that helped lead to the greatest failures in U.S. intelligence history. Num Pages: 552 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPSH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 163 x 38. Weight in Grams: 864.

The 9/11 attacks and the war in Iraq sprang in no small part from massive intelligence failures, that much is well understood. How the CIA got to a point where it could fail so catastrophically is not.

According to John Diamond, this slippage results from the tendency to overlook the links between seemingly unrelated intelligence failures and to underestimate the impact of political pressure on the CIA: factors we need to examine to understand both the origin and magnitude of the 9/11 and Iraq intelligence failures.

To bring these links to light, Diamond analyzes the CIAs role in key events ... Read more

By putting into historical perspective the intelligence failures--both real and perceived—surrounding these events, Diamond illuminates the links between lower-profile intelligence controversies in the early post-Cold War period and the high-profile failures that continue to define the War on Terrorism.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
552
Condition
New
Number of Pages
552
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804756013
SKU
V9780804756013
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About John Diamond
John Diamond is communications director for Senator Maria Cantwell, D-WA. He has written about defense, intelligence, and foreign affairs in Washington for the Associated Press, Chicago Tribune, and USA Today.

Reviews for The CIA and the Culture of Failure: U.S. Intelligence from the End of the Cold War to the Invasion of Iraq
"Diamond has put together a sequence of long, trenchant, truly eclectic essays on the CIA's internal workings, consistently stressing its tendency to outsmart itself. He has astutely canvassed active and recently retired agency personnel, cultivated top personalities in the congressional-oversight committees, combed through the documents and professional literature, and emerged with fine-grained, fair-minded analyses. The result is a collection of ... Read more

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