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Intelligence and the Cuban Missile Crisis examines for the first
time the role and performance of all three intelligence communities
centrally involved in this seminal event: American, Soviet and
Cuban. The ways in which organizational and personality variables
affect the political exploitation of intelligence is assessed
followed by an analysis of the psychology of intelligence
assessment, showing how common cognitive and motivational
pathologies can explain crucial errors of inference and attribution
made by all three intelligence communities. In closing, the lessons
of the volume as a whole are reflected upon for the theory and
practice of intelligence assessment, and for our understanding of
the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Intelligence played a crucial part in the genesis, management and
resolution of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, the world's closest
brush with nuclear war. This study examines the role and
performance of all three intelligence communities centrally
involved in this event: American, Soviet and Cuban.
The Virtual JFK DVD is now available For more information on the
film companion to the book, visit http: //www.virtualjfk.com/ It
Matters Who Is President Then and Now At the heart of this
provocative book lies the fundamental question: Does it matter who
is president on issues of war and peace? The Vietnam War was one of
the most catastrophic and bloody in living memory, and its lessons
take on resonance in light of America's current devastating
involvement in Iraq. Tackling head-on the most controversial and
debated "what if" in U.S. foreign policy, this unique work explores
what President John F. Kennedy would have done in Vietnam if he had
not been assassinated in 1963. Drawing on a wealth of recently
declassified documents, frank oral testimony of White House
officials from both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and
the analysis of top historians, this book presents compelling
evidence that JFK was ready to end U.S. involvement well before the
conflict escalated. With vivid immediacy, readers will feel they
are in the president's war room as the debates raged that forever
changed the course of American history and continue to affect us
profoundly today as the shadows of Vietnam stretch into Iraq."
In October, 1962, the Cuban missile crisis brought human
civilization to the brink of destruction. On the 50th anniversary
of the most dangerous confrontation of the nuclear era, two of the
leading experts on the crisis recreate the drama of those
tumultuous days as experienced by the leaders of the three
countries directly involved: U.S. President John F. Kennedy, Soviet
Premier Nikita Khrushchev, and Cuban President Fidel Castro.
Organized around the letters exchanged among the leaders as the
crisis developed and augmented with many personal details of the
circumstances under which they were written, considered, and
received, Blight and Lang poignantly document the rapidly shifting
physical and psychological realities faced in Washington, Moscow,
and Havana. The result is a revolving stage that allows the reader
to experience the Cuban missile crisis as never before-through the
eyes of each leader as they move through the crisis. The Armageddon
Letters: Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro in the Cuban Missile Crisis
transports the reader back to October 1962, telling a story as
gripping as any fictional apocalyptic novel.
Becoming Enemies brings the unique methods of critical oral
history, developed to study flashpoints from the Cold War such as
the Cuban Missile Crisis, to understand U.S. and Iranian relations
from the fall of the Shah in 1978 through the Iranian hostage
crisis and the Iran-Iraq war. Scholars and former officials
involved with U.S. and UN policy take a fresh look at U.S and
Iranian relations during this time, with special emphasis on the
U.S. role in the Iran-Iraq War. With its remarkable declassified
documentation and oral testimony that bear directly on questions of
U.S. policymaking with regard to the Iran-Iraq War, Becoming
Enemies reveals much that was previously unknown about U.S. policy
before, during, and after the war. They go beyond mere reportage to
offer lessons regarding fundamental foreign policy challenges to
the U.S. that transcend time and place.
The Virtual JFK DVD is now available For more information on the
film companion to the book, visit http: //www.virtualjfk.com/ It
Matters Who Is President Then and Now At the heart of this
provocative book lies the fundamental question: Does it matter who
is president on issues of war and peace? The Vietnam War was one of
the most catastrophic and bloody in living memory, and its lessons
take on resonance in light of America's current devastating
involvement in Iraq. Tackling head-on the most controversial and
debated "what if" in U.S. foreign policy, this unique work explores
what President John F. Kennedy would have done in Vietnam if he had
not been assassinated in 1963. Drawing on a wealth of recently
declassified documents, frank oral testimony of White House
officials from both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and
the analysis of top historians, this book presents compelling
evidence that JFK was ready to end U.S. involvement well before the
conflict escalated. With vivid immediacy, readers will feel they
are in the president's war room as the debates raged that forever
changed the course of American history and continue to affect us
profoundly today as the shadows of Vietnam stretch into Iraq."
In October 1962 school children huddled under their desks and
diplomats feverishly negotiated as the world sat on the brink of
nuclear war. The Cuban Missile Crisis was the most dangerous moment
in modern history and resulted in a changed worldview for the
United States, the Soviet Union, and Cuba. In tracing the
developments of the missile crisis and beyond, Sad and Luminous
Days presents and interprets a heretofore unavailable (and largely
unknown) secret speech that Castro delivered to the Cuban
leadership in 1968. In it, Castro reflects on the crisis and
reveals the distrust and bitterness that characterized Cuban-Soviet
relations in 1968. Blight and Brenner frame the annotated speech
with an examination of the missile crisis itself, and an analysis
of Cuban-Soviet relations between 1962-1968, ending with an
epilogue that highlights the lessons the missile crisis offers us
in the current search for security and a stable world order. Sad
and Luminous Days sheds new light on Cuban-Soviet relations and
should be required reading not only for Cold-War scholars and
historians, but also for anyone intrigued by the drama of the
thirteen momentous days in October 1962.
'. . . an extraordinarily accurate and insightful account of the
Cuban missile crisis. I remember well the fear of which he writes
so persuasively.'--Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense to
Presidents Kennedy and Johnson
Robert S. McNamara is one of modern America's most controversial
figures. His opinions, policies, and actions have led to a
firestorm of debate, ignited most recently by Errol Morris's
Academy Award-winning film, The Fog of War. In the companion book,
editors James G. Blight and janet M. Lang use lessons from
McNamara's life to examine issues of war and peace in the 20th
century. McNamara's career spans some of America's defining
events--from the end of World War I, through the course of World
War II, and the unfolding of the Cold War in Cuba, Vietnam, and
around the world. The Fog of War brings together film transcripts,
documents, dialogues, and essays to explore what the horrors and
triumphs of the 20th century can teach us about the future.
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