Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis demonstrates Advocacy versus Inquiry approaches as discussed in "What You Don't Know About Making Decisions" by David A. Garvin and Michael A. Roberto. It also displays the Double Approach-Avoidance decisions that we studied in "Conflict" by Dennis Coon. Finally, the steps taken by John F. Kennedy display the steps described by Dennis Coon in his writing "Coping with Conflict".
Once President Kennedy learned of the missiles in Cuba he formed a committee, EXCOMM, to discuss the appropriate course of action to deal with the weapons. During the meetings three options were presented:
The first was to take a political course of actions to begin talks with Cuba. This was quickly dismissed because no members of the committee believed that these talks would be successful. The second option was continued surveillance combined with a blockade. Finally, the third option was military action.(Wiersma and Larson 6)
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