NOTES

1. Robert A. Caro, The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power (New York: Knopf, 2012), p. 224.

2. Donald Rumsfeld to President George W. Bush, “Predicting the Future,” April 12, 2001. Available at www.rumsfeld.com.

3. Donald Rumsfeld, “Iraq: An Illustrative List of Potential Problems to Be Considered and Addressed,” October 15, 2002. Available at www.rumsfeld.com.

4. Jonathan Aitken, Charles W. Colson: A Life Redeemed (New York: Doubleday, 2005), p. 167.

5. Robert L. Jervis, Why Intelligence Fails: Lessons from the Iranian Revolution and Iraq War (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010).

6. Thomas Schelling, foreword, in Roberta Wohlstetter, Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1962). ...

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