On The Psychology Of Military Incompetence

2011-09-302011-09-30 M DixonM Dixon
Book On The Psychology Of Military Incompetence

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Publisher : Random House

ISBN-13 : 1446475735

Page : 448 pages

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This unique and penetrating book surveys 100 years of military inefficiency from the Crimean War, through the Boer conflict, to the disasterous campaigns of the First World War and the calamities of the Second. It examines the social psychology of military organizations, provides case studies of individual commanders and identifies an alarming pattern in the causes of military disaster. Absorbing and original, this is the definitive history of military failures.

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