GOV 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Pentagon, Richard Cobden, Classical Liberalism
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The groups do not necessarily have conflicted goals, instead they need to take turns to protect from bad outcomes. Ex: saddam hussein was given very different messages on how the us would respond to a potential invasion of kuwait: dick cheney reaffirmed. Us on heightened alert level: state department, defense department, cia, ndi, nsa, treasury, commerce, Homeland security: think of the rules of the road, just need to get everyone on the same page, problems when interagency coordination fails: 9/11. Managing the foreign policy bureaucracy (ii: competing foreign policy interests within executive branch, president has to pick winners & losers" (who"s invited to the right discussion, what makes it into certain debates, etc. ), though others may play significant roles in the decision-making as well: intensely political: deciding who wins and loses, big implications for implementation, e. g. Pentagon to win more budgets to prepare for the wars, made it difficult to battlefield realities and to fight current wars.
