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Toxic, Poisonous and Stupid: Iraq War Decision-Making Ten Years On

By Leo McCann | Published: March 19, 2013

Even within its own narrow terms the Iraq war was appallingly costly. A bad decision to invade was compounded by shambolic and ineffective leadership of the warfighting itself. Why? The answer seems to lie in the ways in which contemporary large organizations behave

Posted in Featured, Impact, International Debate, News, Public Policy | Also tagged 100 with 50, Bernard Trainor, Blair Government, Bush Administration, Business School, Cobra II, Colonel George E. Reed, Corporatization, Counterinsurgency, Department of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, George Bush, Iraq War, Journalism Studies, Media, Michael Gordon, Organization Studies, Pentagon, Resource Management, State Department, The Pentagon Papers, Tony Blair, Toxic Leadership, Vietnam, Wikileaks, WMDs | Leave a comment

Interview with Richard Bartholomew – Joint head of the Government Social Research Service

By Social Science Space | Published: December 7, 2010

It is important that government policy is supported by the best evidence possible, and this is as true in the area of social science as any other area of research. Richard Bartholomew, Chief Social Researcher in the Department for Education and joint head of the Government Social Research Service, discussed with Socialsciencespace the role of […]

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Toxic, Poisonous and Stupid: Iraq War Decision-Making Ten Years On

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