POLS 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cuban Revolutionary Air And Air Defense Force, Irving Janis, Peer Pressure
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Everything that can go wrong, does go wrong. As a result of the disasters plan, the cuban government respond aggressively, the cuban air force sinks 2/4 supply ships. Cuban air force shoots down the rebels b-26s. Troops that land, are either killed or captured. Everyone finally knows that the americans are behind the operation. Kennedy now feels like an idiot for letting the plan happen. Kennedy has had two spate and independent investigations done as why it went so badly. Some advisors felt they couldn"t say know that it would affect their status ass advisors. Argument that there were people who were afraid of losing their status by telling kennedy that she shouldn"t have made the decision: some had incentive to try and talk kennedy out of the. Causes of group think decisions: janis wrote about government decision making and corporations and journeys as potentially suffering from group think.