Friendly fire: accidents in battle from Ancient Greece to the Gulf War

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London: Leo Cooper, 1994Description: 162pISBN:
  • 0850523729 (hbk.)
Subject(s): Summary: Friendly fire or its equivalent before the invention of firearms dates back to the time when bands of men first assaulted each other. The historical survey of some of the most dramatic incidents of what the more correctly calls accidential amicide. It is an accurance as old as warfare itself. It is inevitable that in the heat of battle men become confused and disoriented and such accidents are bound to happen. The author shows the blame can be attributed to the incompetence of a commander who leads or sends his men into the line of fire of his own guns.
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Friendly fire or its equivalent before the invention of firearms dates back to the time when bands of men first assaulted each other. The historical survey of some of the most dramatic incidents of what the more correctly calls accidential amicide. It is an accurance as old as warfare itself. It is inevitable that in the heat of battle men become confused and disoriented and such accidents are bound to happen. The author shows the blame can be attributed to the incompetence of a commander who leads or sends his men into the line of fire of his own guns.

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