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  On the Psychology of Military Incompetence (Paperback) By (author) Norman F. Dixon

  

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  Short Description for On the Psychology of Military IncompetenceThis text surveys 100 years of military inefficiency from the Crimean War to World War II. It examines the social psychology of military organizations, provides case studies of individual commanders and indentifies an alarming pattern in the causes of military disaster.
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  • Publisher: PIMLICO
  • Published: 06 January 1994
  • Format: Paperback 448 pages
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  • Categories: Sociology | Occupational & Industrial Psychology | Defence Strategy, Planning & Research | War & Defence Operations
  • ISBN 13: 9780712658898 ISBN 10: 0712658890
  • Sales rank: 34,993

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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. 'An absorbing, perceptive and often very funny study in human frailty...stimulating and almost invariably provocative. ' Lord Chalfont, LISTENER.