Command Failure in War Psychology and Leadership

Name: Command Failure in War Psychology and Leadership
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ISBN: 9780253343789

ISBN-10: 025334378X

ISBN-13: 9780253343789

Edition: 2004

Authors: Philip Langer, Robert Pois, Robert Pois

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Seven cases of serious command failure are studied by historian Robert Pois & psychologist Philip Langer, in an effort to determine how experienced commanders & strategists sometimes made disasterous decisions & embark on reckless adventures.

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 5/12/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.73" wide x 9.65" long x 0.97" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English

Robert Pois (1940-2004) was Professor of History at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Among his books are The Great War; National Socialism and the Religion of Nature; and Friedrich Meinecke and German Politics in the Twentieth Century.Philip Langer is Professor of Educational Psychology and Faculty Fellow of the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado-Boulder. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.



Preface



Introduction



Frederick the Great at Kunersdorf, August 12, 1759 "Will not some accursed bullet strike me?"



Napoleon in Russia, 1812 "Whose blood have I shed?"



General George B. McClellan, The Wounded Ego "If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or any other person in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice the army."



Pickett's Charge: The Failure of Success "Too bad. Too Bad. O, too bad."



Franklin, Tennessee: The Wrong Enemy "In my utmost heart I questioned whether or not I could ever succeed in eradicating this evil."



Conventional Historical Explanations: The British Military in World War I "The machine gun is a much overrated weapon, and two per battalion is sufficient."



Winston Churchill, Arthur Harris, and British Strategic Bombing "It was as heroic, as self sacrificing, as Russia's decision to adopt her policy of 'scorched earth.'"



Stalingrad: A Ghastly Collaboration between Hitler and his Generals "I will not go back from the Volga."


Conclusion