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100	1		_aCOHEN Eliot A.
245			_aMilitary misfortunes : _bthe anatomy of failure in war / _cEliot A. Cohen, John Gooch.
260			_aNew York : _bFree Press, _c2006
300			_a302 p.
500			_aOriginally published in hardcover by the Free Press... New York , 1990
520			_aStudy, 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			_aMILITARY ART AND SCIENCE
650			_aMILITARY HISTORY
700			_aGOOCH John
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