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Anatomy of a Failure: The Decision to Land at the Bay of Pigs
Lucien S. Vandenbroucke applies the decision-making models formulated by Graham T. Allison to the decision to proceed with the Bay of Pigs operation in 1961. The author evaluates the explanatory power of these models in the abortive Cuban invasion and suggests complementing Allison's conceptual framework with the findings of cognitive theory.
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