ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates in which way British policy-makers handled the six decisional conflicts. For each decisional conflict the data are presented in a similar fashion. The chapter provides an overview of the structure of decision-making based on the chronology of meetings. This is followed by a description of decision-making. The available material is linked to the explanatory variables, namely: Groupthink, worldview of the leader, domestic political institutions, and organizational context. The decision to continue operations despite growing international and domestic opposition should thus be understood in terms of the constraining influence of, especially, the organizational context, and, to a lesser extent, domestic politics. The decision itself has been influenced by Groupthink. British decision-makers preferred to stick to the rationalization that the Challe-plan had offered them. The presence of a large number of symptoms of Groupthink testifies to their entrapment in their legal pretext.
