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Military Misfortunes The Anatomy of Failure in War

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ISBN-10: 0743280822

ISBN-13: 9780743280822

Edition: 2006

Authors: Eliot A. Cohen, John Gooch, Eliot Cohen

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WHY DO COMPETENT ARMIES FAIL? - Why did the American-led coalition in Iraq fail to wage a classic counter-insurgency campaign for so long after the fall of Baghdad? - Why was the sophisticated Israeli intelligence service so thoroughly surprised by the onslaught of combined Arab armies during the Yom Kippur War of 1973? - How did a dozen German U-boats manage to humiliate the U.S. Navy for nine months in 1942 -- sinking an average of 650,000 tons of shipping monthly? - What made the 1915 British-led invasion of Gallipoli one of the bloodiest catastrophes of the First World War? Since it was first published in 1990, "Military Misfortunes" has become the classic analysis of the…    
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Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 1/5/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English

Andrew J. Bacevich is professor of international relations at Boston University where he also serves as director of the university's Center for International Relations. He is the author of The Pentomic Era: The U.S. Army Between Korea and Vietnam.Eliot Cohen is professor of strategic studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, where he is also the founding director of the Center for Strategic Education. He is the coauthor of Revolution in Warfare?: Air Power in the Persian Gulf.

Preface
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?
Afterword
Notes
Index