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Military misfortunes : the anatomy of failure in war / Eliot A. Cohen, John Gooch.
LIBRA U42 .C56 1990
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cohen, Eliot A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Military art and science--History--20th century.
- Military art and science.
- Military history, Modern--20th century.
- Military history, Modern.
- Military art and science--20th century.
- Battles.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan, ©1990.
- Summary:
- Rejecting accepted theories for unexpected military disasters, the authors brilliantly analyze disasters of great magnitude. They assert that military misfortune turns not on individual or collective failure but is rooted in the nature of the complex interconnections between men, systems, and organizations. -- Amazon.com.
- Contents:
- Why misfortune?
- Analyzing failure
- Failure to learn : American antisubmarine warfare in 1942
- Failure to anticipate : Israel Defense Forces on the Suez Front and the Golan Heights, 1973
- Failure to adapt : the British at Gallipoli, August 1915
- Aggregate failure : the defeat of the Aerican Eighth Army in Korea, November-December 1950
- Catastophic failure : The Freanch Army and Air Force, May-June 1940
- What can be done?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-289).
- Other Format:
- Online version: Cohen, Eliot A. Military misfortunes.
- ISBN:
- 0029060605
- 9780029060605
- OCLC:
- 20356932
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