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On The Psychology Of Military Incompetence

by Norman F. Dixon · 1976

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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.

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Absorbing and original, this is the definitive history of military failures.

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psychologypsychologyMore like thisLess of thishistoryhistoryMore like thisLess of thisleadershipleadershipMore like thisLess of this
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war and militarywar and militaryMore like thisLess of this
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military historymilitary historyMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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long · 448 pages

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