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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Cuban Missile Crisis"”.
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Intelligence and decision making : the Bay of Pigs operation and the Cuban missile crisis.
… the United States lost influence over Cuban affairs and viewed Castro's regime as a threat to its national security. Subsequent crises involving Cuba and the United States in 1961 and 1962 are examined as case studies of intelligence and decision making. At the end of his …
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A theory of group decision-making applied to the Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis decisions
<p>This study of political decision-making stressing the process of decision-making in a group setting is, in part, a reaction against traditional approaches of political analysis.</p><p>The study of international relations is overburdened with historical studies of the interaction between states. …
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The diffusion of crisis information: a computer simulation of Soviet mass media exposure during the Cuban missile crisis and the aftermath of President Kennedy's assassination.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Political Science. Thesis. 1970. Ph.D.
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The Defense Intelligence Agency: An in-depth study of the development of the intelligence agency
… played a better or bigger role in the campaigns: Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, Grenada, and Desert Storm are some examples. Today DIA, as a powerful intelligence agency, plays a significant role in the intelligence community.
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Decision Making During National Security Crisis: The Case of the JFK Administration
… F. Kennedy administration: the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Vietnam conflict. Each case is examined for the presence of indicators of groupthink. I hypothesize that the relative absence of groupthink is related to a positive outcome. That hypothesis is examined by reviewing each …
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Living in the shadow: Britain and the USSR’s nuclear weapon delivery systems 1949-62
… nuclear bombers and long-range nuclear ballistic missiles during the period 1949 until 1962. It also analyses the serious intelligence collection problems that were encountered concerning this topic and how successful Britain’s intelligence efforts were in the light of what is now known. This …
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Searching for shelter
… as a response to the threat of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
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The U.S. Army School of the Americas and U.S. National Interests in the 20th Century
… such as the Berlin Blockade, the Korean War, the Cuban Revolution, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Vietnam War, the school continuously reorganized to grant the United States a clear political advantage to influence rising military leaders, government leaders, and consequently its political …
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The hermeneutics of airphoto interpretation
… and then monitor the resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The analysis of the technologies and historical record utilizes a methodology defined as hermeneutical. Hermeneutics is the study of communication, or the exchange of knowledge accomplished through a text. The treatment of …
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Mikhail Gorbachev and His Role in the Peaceful Solution of the Cold War
… of the World War II. Or, for example, the Cuban Missile Crisis and its peaceful solution went down in history highlighting roles of John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev in the tense negotiations during the confrontation. This thesis is built as a single-case study discovering the …
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Red lines and faits accomplis in interstate coercion and crisis
… In contrast, this dissertation conceives of each crisis as a strategic competition between a challenger seeking to make gains unilaterally by fait accompli and its adversary's countervailing efforts to set red lines to deter these faits accomplis. After clarifying the neglected concepts of "red …
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Images of Americans: The United States in Canadian newspapers during the 1960s
… of President John F. Kennedy in 1960, the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the Watts Riot of Los Angeles in 1965, an anti-Vietnam War speech made by Privy Councillor Walter Gordon in 1967, and the voyage of an American oil tanker, the Manhattan, into the Canadian arctic in April of 1970. This work …
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The Expanding Rol of the President as Commander-In-Chief Since World War II
… <p>The Kennedy administration's handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis outlines the problems of massive retaliation strategy as other nations continued to develop their own forces. It also points out the need for a sole decision maker in crisis situations and changes in the concept of imminent …
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A Moment of Failure: The Debate Surrounding the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks
<p>Following the Cuban Missile Crisis, many in the United States and the Soviet Union believed their leaders had narrowly avoided nuclear annihilation. In response to this crisis, however, American and Soviet citizens asked more questions about nuclear weapons and their spread than ever before, …
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Normalization Policies with Cuba: Implications for Political and Economic Reform
… the worst deprivations being felt by ordinary Cuban citizens.</p> <p>After completion of a thorough internal assessment and review of the U.S.’s posture with respect to Cuba, on December 17, 2014 the White House announced President Obama’s decision to take a new approach, one ending the period …