Several presidents have been given conflicting advice during wartime. Some advisers urged the president to pursue a peaceful solution; others urged him to escalate bombing to overcome the enemy. These presidents did not want to go down in history as the first U.S. president to lose a war, so they have chosen to escalate, thereby prolonging the war. According to your text, this decision was most likely a consequence of the motive to
Group thinking is a phenomenon in which in an attempt to conform to the establisheed norm, there is an irrational decision making where the group's thought supercede the individual decision.
