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Title: Military Misfortunes : The Anatomy of Failure in War by John Gooch, Eliot A. Cohen ISBN: 0-679-73296-9 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 07 May, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Campus nonsense, no dirty boots
Comment: If you're an armchair general who never served in the military and who believes that professors know more about war than soldiers, this is the book for you. If you love dreary writing, buy two copies. If tendentious history is your thing, buy three. This is campus arrogance with little sense of the complexity, confusion and danger of battle. But if you're just aching to believe that generals are all dummies, and that anybody with a doctorate in international relations could run our wars better than the men and women who sweat, bleed and die for our country, this is the perfect book for you. Good trees died for this.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent and highly recommended
Comment: If you enjoy this type "failure" analysis (such as the book "Normal Accidents"), I think you'll find this to be an excellent read. My interest is primarily in business strategy and related issues (not in military history and strategy per se), but the authors present material which I found to be very useful across many different professions. My complements to the authors for good cases, good analysis and good writing. I really had great fun reading this book. It could have used better proof reading, but the errors enountered in no way hindered the presentation in any material way.
Rating: 2
Summary: What?
Comment: I am not sure what to make of this book. The model is nothing new if you really think about it. It's bottled snake oil to some extent. The analysis is arbitrary (that does not mean wrong) and one can find subtle flaws. There are many interesting facts, and other ways to look at events and battles, but the book is useful only to the narrow-minded. I wonder who wrote the other reviews. His friends?
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Title: Supreme Command : Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime by ELIOT A. COHEN ISBN: 1400034043 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 09 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Creating G. I. Jane by Leisa D. Meyer ISBN: 0231101457 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $23.50 |
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Title: Aztlan and Viet Nam: Chicano and Chicana Experiences of the War (American Crossroads, 4) by George Mariscal ISBN: 0520214056 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: A New Structure for National Security Policy Planning (Significant Issues Series, Vol 21 No 3) by Stephen A. Cambone ISBN: 0892063459 Publisher: Center for Strategic and International Studies Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Command in War by Martin van Creveld, Martin L. van Crevald, Martin Van Creveld ISBN: 0674144414 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 1987 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
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