Blinders, blunders, and wars : what America and China can learn /

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The history of wars caused by misjudgments, from Napoleon's invasion of Russia to America's invasion of Iraq, reveals that leaders relied on cognitive models, or simplified representations of their worlds, that were seriously at odds with objective reality. Blinders, Blunders, and Wars ana...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Gompert, David C. (Autor), Binnendijk, Hans (Autor), Lin, Bonny (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2014.
Temas:
War > Decision making > Case studies.
Strategy > Case studies.
Military history > Case studies.
Guerre > Prise de décision > Études de cas.
Stratégie > Études de cas.
Histoire militaire > Études de cas.
HISTORY > Military > Strategy.
HISTORY > Military > Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
Military history
Military policy > Decision making
Strategy
War > Decision making
United States > Military policy > Decision making.
China > Military policy > Decision making.
China
United States
Case studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The Information Value Chain and the Use of Information for Strategic Decisionmaking
  • Napoleon's Invasion of Russia, 1812
  • The American Decision to Go to War with Spain, 1898
  • Germany's Decision to Conduct Unrestricted U-boat Warfare, 1916
  • Woodrow Wilson's Decision to Enter World War I, 1917
  • Hitler's Decision to Invade the USSR, 1941
  • Japan's Attack on Pearl Harbor, 1941
  • U.S.-Soviet Showdown over the Egyptian Third Army, 1973
  • China's Punitive War Against Vietnam, 1979
  • The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, 1979
  • The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, 1979
  • The Soviet Decision Not to Invade Poland, 1981
  • Argentina's Invasion of the Falklands (Malvinas), 1982
  • The U.S. Invasion of Iraq, 2003
  • Making Sense of Making Mistakes
  • Possible Remedies
  • The Sino-U.S. Case
  • Findings and Recommendations.

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