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Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure in War

✍ Scribed by Cohen, Eliot A.;Gooch, John

Publisher
Free Press
Year
2012
Tongue
English
Weight
688 KB
Category
Fiction
City
Riverside
ISBN
1439135487

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Description; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Why Misfortune?; Chapter 2: Understanding Disaster; Chapter 3: Analyzing Failure; Chapter 4: Failure to Learn American Antisubmarine Warfare in 1942; Chapter 5: Failure to Anticipate Israel Defense Forces on the Suez Front and the Golan Heights, 1973; Chapter 6: Failure to Adapt The British at Gallipoli, August 1915; Chapter 7: Aggregate Failure The Defeat of the American Eighth Army in Korea, November-December 1950; Chapter 8: Catastrophic Failure The French Army and Air Force, May-June 1940; Chapter 9: What Can Be Done?;Since it was first published in 1990, Military Misfortunes has become the classic analysis of the unexpected catastrophes that befall competent militaries. Now with a new Afterword discussing America's missteps in Iraq, Somalia, and the War on Terror, Eliot A. Cohen and John Gooch's gripping battlefield narratives and groundbreaking explanations of the hidden factors that undermine armies are brought thoroughly up to date. As recent events prove, Military Misfortunes will be required reading for as long as armies go to war.

✦ Subjects

Military history, Modern -- 20th century

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