If you're interested in this sort of thing, check out the book Essence of Decision, by Graham T. Allison. It analyzes the Cuban missile crisis under three diff

If you're interested in this sort of thing, check out the book Essence of Decision, by Graham T. Allison. It analyzes the Cuban missile crisis under three different models for understanding how organizations make decisions, and talks about how one might make sense of the facts in light of those models. It's a fascinating read. The situation comes out feeling like a particularly operatic Kurosawa movie. Only the whole thing actually happened.