Was the Decision to Invade Iraq and the Failure of Occupation Planning a Case of Groupthink?

This thesis examines the decision to invade Iraq and the failed planning for the occupation of Iraq. Since Janis introduced groupthink in 1972, the groupthink perspective has been used to explain foreign policy disasters such as the failure to anticipate the Pearl Harbor attack and the Bay of Pigs....

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Main Author: Scheeringa, Daniel
Other Authors: Political Science
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34245
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07292010-145020/