Military misfortunes: The anatomy of failure in war
- New York Free Press 2006
- 303 p. ilus.
Curso Tarapow NCC 2013 Curso Urrutia NCC 2011
Preface 1. Why misfortune? 2. Understanding disaster 3. Analyzing failure 4. Failure to learn: American antisubmarine warfare in 1942 5. Failure to anticipate: Israel defense forces on the Suez front and the Golan Heights, 1973 6. Failure to adapt: The british at Gallipoli, aug 1925 7. Aggregate failure: The defeat of the American Eighth Army in Korea, nov-dec 1950 8. Catastrophic failure: The French Army and Air Force, may-jun 1940 9. What can be done? Afterword