The purpose of this paper is to evaluate The Bay of Pigs using the four steps of battle analysis and provide an alternate outcome using intellectual standards and elements of reasoning. Using the four steps of battle analysis I will: (1) Define the Subject/Evaluate the sources, (2) Review the Setting (Set the Stage), (3) Describe the Action, and (4) Assess the Significance of the Action. In step four, I will explain how an intelligence failure on the part of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) leads to the humiliating defeat at The Bay of Pigs. It is theorized that had the CIA disclosed all pertinent intelligence to President John F. Kennedy the president would have cancelled the operation or fundamentally altered it thus reshaping
