Choose One Examples of Groupthink to Summarize and Evaluate in a LJ Paper
This is a little story about politics, groupthink and a decision to attempt a rescue raid on “Son Tay”. On November 21, 1970, 56 men power forces was put together and they undergo a six-month planning and training process under the supervision of Brigadier General Leroy Manor (USAF) as overall commander, and Colonel Arthur D. “Bull” Simons (USA) as his deputy, these gentlemen happens to be the most arguably outstanding gentlemen of all special operations missions conducted by the US military. A raid that was perceived just because they received info based on imagery suggesting that about 70 American prisoners of wars “POWs” were being held captive at a special isolated …show more content…
The White House and Pentagon was both victim of a “groupthink” as they tussled to reach a conclusive decision to launch a mission. Unknowingly to both party, each group has their own criteria on how they are going to launch the mission, and as well, both group view the success of the mission in a very different away. Like in 1971, Author Irving Janis, described groupthink as part of his ground-breaking study of the Kennedy Administration’s conduct of the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion. Groupthink occurs when individuals allow a desire for camaraderie and unity within a group to predominate their enthusiasm to persuasively consider alternative courses of action. This is exactly what happens in this case because the Intelligence picture, that is, So Tay prison camp picture that was taking was totally confused and deteriorating in this scenario, a mission was recommended by Secretary of Defense Laird go to the White House. Despite the fact that “the US military inability to conduct a successful POW rescue since the Civil War, and moreover the experience in Southeast Asia was predominantly bleak, Between 1966 and 1970, forty-five raids were mounted by U.S forces in Cambodia, Laos, and South Vietnam to rescue American POWs and they manage to freed just one prisoner and he eventually died shortly after rescue due to the injuries that was inflicted on him the moments before he was rescued (Amidon,
This is a little story about politics, groupthink and a decision to attempt a rescue raid on “Son Tay”. On November 21, 1970, 56 men power forces was put together and they undergo a six-month planning and training process under the supervision of Brigadier General Leroy Manor (USAF) as overall commander, and Colonel Arthur D. “Bull” Simons (USA) as his deputy, these gentlemen happens to be the most arguably outstanding gentlemen of all special operations missions conducted by the US military. A raid that was perceived just because they received info based on imagery suggesting that about 70 American prisoners of wars “POWs” were being held captive at a special isolated …show more content…
The White House and Pentagon was both victim of a “groupthink” as they tussled to reach a conclusive decision to launch a mission. Unknowingly to both party, each group has their own criteria on how they are going to launch the mission, and as well, both group view the success of the mission in a very different away. Like in 1971, Author Irving Janis, described groupthink as part of his ground-breaking study of the Kennedy Administration’s conduct of the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion. Groupthink occurs when individuals allow a desire for camaraderie and unity within a group to predominate their enthusiasm to persuasively consider alternative courses of action. This is exactly what happens in this case because the Intelligence picture, that is, So Tay prison camp picture that was taking was totally confused and deteriorating in this scenario, a mission was recommended by Secretary of Defense Laird go to the White House. Despite the fact that “the US military inability to conduct a successful POW rescue since the Civil War, and moreover the experience in Southeast Asia was predominantly bleak, Between 1966 and 1970, forty-five raids were mounted by U.S forces in Cambodia, Laos, and South Vietnam to rescue American POWs and they manage to freed just one prisoner and he eventually died shortly after rescue due to the injuries that was inflicted on him the moments before he was rescued (Amidon,