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Blinders, blunders, and wars : what America and China can learn / / David C. Gompert, Hans Binnendijk, Bonny Lin
| Blinders, blunders, and wars : what America and China can learn / / David C. Gompert, Hans Binnendijk, Bonny Lin |
| Autore | Gompert David C. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Santa Monica, California : , : RAND, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (601 p.) |
| Disciplina | 355.02/75 |
| Soggetto topico |
War - Decision making
Strategy Military history |
| ISBN |
0-8330-8778-9
0-8330-8780-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Preface; Contents; Figures and Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; CHAPTER ONE: Introduction; Blunders; A Brief History of Blunders; Strategic Decisionmaking; Models of Reality; Blunders and Information; Structure of the Study; Conclusion; CHAPTER TWO: The Information Value Chain and the Use of Information for Strategic Decisionmaking; The Role of Information in War and Peace; The Information Value Chain; Information and Strategic Blunders; Technology and the Information Value Chain; Individuals and Institutions in the Information Value Chain
Road MapCHAPTER THREE: Napoleon's Invasion of Russia, 1812; Man of Destiny; The Russia Problem; Planning for the Best; Hunger, Cold, and Cossacks; Flawed Model of Reality; He Could Have Known Better; CHAPTER FOUR: The American Decision to Go to War with Spain, 1898; Looking for the Right War; Late Nineteenth-Century America and Its Ambitions; The War with Great Britain That Wasn't; Targeting Spain; The Decision; The Results; The Decisionmaking and What to Learn from It; CHAPTER FIVE: Germany's Decision to Conduct Unrestricted U-boat Warfare, 1916; Germany's Dilemma; Kaiser in a Corner The Military Prevails-Germany LosesWhy Were the Risks Minimized?; The Worst of All Options; CHAPTER SIX: Woodrow Wilson's Decision to Enter World War I, 1917; Ending American Neutrality; Wilson Hesitates, Maneuvers, Then Decides; Realism and Idealism; Reluctant but Right; CHAPTER SEVEN: Hitler's Decision to Invade the USSR, 1941; Hitler's Momentous Mistake; Reversing Defeat and Gazing to the East; The Decision for Operation Barbarossa; From Victory to Defeat; Understanding Hitler and His Environment; A Flawed Theory of Success; Conclusion; CHAPTER EIGHT: Japan's Attack on Pearl Harbor, 1941 Imperial Japan Colonizes ChinaU.S. Backlash; Fateful Decision; Moves Toward War; Decisionmaking in Tokyo; Pyrrhic Victory; Japan's Flawed Model of Success; Conclusion; CHAPTER NINE: U.S.-Soviet Showdown over the Egyptian Third Army, 1973; The Makings of U.S.-Soviet Confrontation; The Fate of the Third Army; Anatomy of Decision; Success; Getting It Right; CHAPTER TEN: China's Punitive War Against Vietnam, 1979; Mitigated Blunder; The Road to War; The Decision to Punish Vietnam; Assessing the War; Deng as Decisionmaker; CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, 1979 The Beginning of the EndMonumental Mistake; Mission Creep, Soviet Style; What Were They Thinking?; Failure to Imagine What Would Happen; CHAPTER TWELVE: The Soviet Decision Not to Invade Poland, 1981; Counterrevolution in Poland; From a Reluctant Yes to a Maybe to an Adamant No; Conversion on the Road to Warsaw; The Days and Years to Follow; Were the Soviets Thinking Straight?; Lessons for Strategic Decisionmaking; CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Argentina's Invasion of the Falklands (Malvinas), 1982; As Bad as a Blunder Can Be; Argentine Fury and Folly; In a Trap of Their Own Making; Unhinged from Reality Rational but Wrong |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910219973703321 |
Gompert David C.
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| Santa Monica, California : , : RAND, , 2014 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Endless war? [[electronic resource] ] : hidden functions of the "war on terror" / / David Keen
| Endless war? [[electronic resource] ] : hidden functions of the "war on terror" / / David Keen |
| Autore | Keen David <1958-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; Ann Arbor, Mich., : Pluto Press, 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
| Disciplina | 355.02/75 |
| Soggetto topico |
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009
War - Psychological aspects War and society |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-84964-277-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455336403321 |
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Keen David <1958->
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| London ; ; Ann Arbor, Mich., : Pluto Press, 2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Endless war? [[electronic resource] ] : hidden functions of the "war on terror" / / David Keen
| Endless war? [[electronic resource] ] : hidden functions of the "war on terror" / / David Keen |
| Autore | Keen David <1958-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; Ann Arbor, Mich., : Pluto Press, 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
| Disciplina | 355.02/75 |
| Soggetto topico |
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009
War - Psychological aspects War and society |
| ISBN | 1-84964-277-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778461503321 |
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Keen David <1958->
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| London ; ; Ann Arbor, Mich., : Pluto Press, 2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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