Military misfortunes : the anatomy of failure in war /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Free Press ;
2006, c1990.
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| Edition: | 1st Free Press pbk. ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Why misfortune?
- Understanding disaster
- 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 American Eighth Army in Korea, November-December 1950
- Catastrophic failure : The French Army and Air Force, May-June 1940
- What can be done?