Decent Interval — When Intelligence Fails to Become Action
How can an institution possess increasingly accurate warnings of collapse and still behave as though there is more time?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using Decent Interval by Frank Snepp as our lens, this investigation examines the fall of Saigon through the institutional systems that shaped American decision-making during the final months of the Vietnam War.
Snepp, a former CIA strategy analyst in Vietnam, argues that warnings about the deterioration of South Vietnam were repeatedly filtered through diplomatic expectations, political…
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