Groupthink: Psychological Studies of Policy Decisions and Fiascoes |
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... leading citizens , the day after the warning was issued , the members joked about the warning and laughed uproariously when someone arrived wearing a parachute . What the club members were com- municating to each other by their ...
... leading citizens , the day after the warning was issued , the members joked about the warning and laughed uproariously when someone arrived wearing a parachute . What the club members were com- municating to each other by their ...
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... leading advocate of the bombing policy and , in 1965 , a confident believer that American intervention would bring the Vietcong insurgency under con- trol - opened a deep policy rift in the Johnson Administration . The study does not ...
... leading advocate of the bombing policy and , in 1965 , a confident believer that American intervention would bring the Vietcong insurgency under con- trol - opened a deep policy rift in the Johnson Administration . The study does not ...
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... leading to the prompt capture of all the Watergate burglars in the very act of committing the crime . Their in- credible ineptness also allowed the Washington , D.C. , police to obtain evidence leading to the arrest of Howard Hunt and ...
... leading to the prompt capture of all the Watergate burglars in the very act of committing the crime . Their in- credible ineptness also allowed the Washington , D.C. , police to obtain evidence leading to the arrest of Howard Hunt and ...
Contents
Why So Many Miscalculations? | 2 |
The Bay of Pigs | 14 |
The Wrong | 48 |
Copyright | |
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