Military misfortunes : (Record no. 7520)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0743280822 (pbk) :
Terms of availability 15.00USD
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name COHEN Eliot A.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Military misfortunes :
Remainder of title the anatomy of failure in war /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Eliot A. Cohen, John Gooch.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Free Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2006
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 302 p.
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Originally published in hardcover by the Free Press... New York , 1990
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Study, drawing on various examples, of what goes wrong when apparently competent militaries fail to achieve victory; what von Manstein described as lost victories. These failures are assessed as failure to learn: U.S. antisubmarine warfare in 1942; failure to anticipate: Israel's defence of Suez and the golan Heights 1973; failure to adapt: Britsh at Gallipoli 1915; aggregate failure: defeat of the American Eighth Army in Korea 1950; Catstrophic failure: the fall of France 1940. The new afterword briefly asks what went wrong with America's invasion of Iraq - why were U.S. forces apparently unprepared for an insurgency when so many examples were available and had already been studied.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element MILITARY ART AND SCIENCE
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element MILITARY HISTORY
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name GOOCH John
945 ## - LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC)
i 21623-1001
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Mindef Library & Info Centre Mindef Library & Info Centre On-Shelf 09/05/2007 1 355.48 COH 21623-1001 29/03/2008 1 03/01/2024 Book