 | Why Intelligence Fails: Lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War Subjects: Intelligence service -- United States -- Evaluation -- Case studies; United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- Evaluation -- Case studies; Iran -- History -- Revolution 1979; Iraq War 2003 -- Military intelligence -- United States -- Evaluation; Wea; 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. Robert Jervis is Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics at Columbia University. He is the author of many books, including The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution , also from Cornell, and, most recently, American Foreign Policy in a New Era. |
