After reading What can be learned from the past? and Soviet deception in the Cuban Missile Crisis, identify any cognitive shortfalls associated with individual or group perception, memory, analysis, or biases associated with Operation Anadyr. The specific format and contents of the paper are attached. Please review the lesson notes prior to starting your paper. Citation Format: Turabian. PLAGIARISM Free. Title Page. (a) Title of the paper: Perception, Bias, and the Cuban Missile Crisis (b) Student Name. (c) Course Number. (d) Instructor Name. (e) Date the paper was completed. Length: Minimum of four pages, no more than five pages (double spaced, not including the title page and Selected Bibliography). Section I: Introduction. (a) Clearly state the purpose of your paper along with the approach youll be taking to answer the question. Briefly summarize the key events associated with the Cuban Missile Crisis. Section II: Perceiving the build-up to and eventual crisis. (a) From the course readings/presentations, identify two specific instances where US political or military personnel mistakenly perceived the build-up to the crisis, the Soviets ability to successfully place nuclear weapons in Cuba, and the Soviets response to the crisis. Analyze why the perception was believed to be correct and its impact on the crisis. (b) From the course readings/presentations, identify two specific instances where US political or military personnel allowed a cognitive bias to influence their assessment/judgment in relation to the build-up to the crisis, the Soviets ability to successfully place nuclear weapons in Cuba, and the Soviets response to the crisis. Analyze how the bias occurred its impact on the crisis. (c) Identify two missed indicators you think wouldve allowed the US to prevent the Soviets from placing weapons in Cuba. Assess why you think these indicators were missed and how they couldve altered the conflict had they been collected, identified, and recognized as such. Section III: Selected Bibliography. (a) Contains all sources consulted and cited in preparing your paper.

After reading What can be learned from the past? and Soviet deception in the Cuban Missile Crisis, identify any cognitive shortfalls associated with individual or group perception, memory, analysis, or biases associated with Operation Anadyr. The specific format and contents of the paper are attached. Please review the lesson notes prior to starting your paper. Citation Format: Turabian. PLAGIARISM Free.
Title Page.
(a) Title of the paper: Perception, Bias, and the Cuban Missile Crisis
(b) Student Name.
(c) Course Number.
(d) Instructor Name.
(e) Date the paper was completed.
Length: Minimum of four pages, no more than five pages (double spaced, not including the title page and Selected Bibliography).
Section I: Introduction.
(a) Clearly state the purpose of your paper along with the approach youll be taking to answer the question. Briefly summarize the key events associated with the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Section II: Perceiving the build-up to and eventual crisis.
(a) From the course readings/presentations, identify two specific instances where US political or military personnel mistakenly perceived the build-up to the crisis, the Soviets ability to successfully place nuclear weapons in Cuba, and the Soviets response to the crisis. Analyze why the perception was believed to be correct and its impact on the crisis.
(b) From the course readings/presentations, identify two specific instances where US political or military personnel allowed a cognitive bias to influence their assessment/judgment in relation to the build-up to the crisis, the Soviets ability to successfully place nuclear weapons in Cuba, and the Soviets response to the crisis. Analyze how the bias occurred its impact on the crisis.
(c) Identify two missed indicators you think wouldve allowed the US to prevent the Soviets from placing weapons in Cuba. Assess why you think these indicators were missed and how they couldve altered the conflict had they been collected, identified, and recognized as such.
Section III: Selected Bibliography.
(a) Contains all sources consulted and cited in preparing your paper.