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100 1 _aWIRTZ James J
245 _aThe art of the intelligence autopsy /
_cJames J Wirtz.
260 _c2014
520 _aPresents the processes used by Robert Jervis in carrying out postmortems of two cases of intelligence failure: the fall of Shah of Iran in 1979, and the claim that Iraq had restarted its nuclear program in 2002. Discusses the findings of the postmortems and notes (a) the value of collaboration between scholars and analysts, and (b) that improving analytical tradecraft is more useful than bureaucratic reorganization.
650 _aINTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS
650 _aINTELLIGENCE FAILURES
773 _aIntelligence and National Security :
_gVol 29 No 1, February 2014, pp.1-18 (99)
856 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2012.748371
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