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Victims of Groupthink: A Psychological Study of Foreign Policy Decisions and Fiascoes

Why do cohesive policy teams miss warnings? Through U.S. foreign policy failures and successes, Janis examines pressures toward agreement and proposes safeguards for dissent and critical testing.

9 parts, about 28 minutes to read.

At a glance

Author
Irving L. Janis
Parts
9 parts
Reading time
about 28 minutes
The whole book
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What the summary covers

  1. Introduction: Why So Many Miscalculations?2 min
  2. A Perfect Failure: The Bay of Pigs4 min
  3. In and Out of North Korea: The Wrong War with the Wrong Enemy3 min
  4. Pearl Harbor Revisited: Or, Why the Fortress Slept3 min
  5. Escalation of the Vietnam War: How Could It Happen?4 min
  6. The Cuban Missile Crisis4 min
  7. The Making of the Marshall Plan2 min
  8. Generalizations: Who Succumbs, When, and Why3 min
  9. Preventing Groupthink3 min

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