Homework: Cuban Missile Crisis
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."
This outline is intended to help your structure your paper. You should not submit an outline, however. You should instead submit a paper in narrative format that contains the following elements:
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
Section A: Introduction.
a. Clearly state the purpose of your paper along with the approach you'll be taking to answer the question. Briefly summarize the key events associated with the Cuban Missile Crisis. Summarize your introduction with a clear thesis statement.
Section B: 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 Soviet's ability to successfully place nuclear weapons in Cuba, and the Soviet's 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 Soviet's ability to successfully place nuclear weapons in Cuba, and the Soviet's response to the crisis. Analyze how the bias occurred its impact on the crisis.
c. Identify two missed indicators you think would've allowed the US to prevent the Soviets from placing weapons in Cuba. Assess why you think these indicators were missed and how they could've altered the conflict had they been collected, identified, and recognized as such.
Section C: Conclusion
Format your homework according to the give formatting requirements:
a. The answer must be double spaced, typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
b. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the course title, the student's name, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
c. Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.