On the Psychology of Military Incompetence - Couverture rigide

Dixon, Norman F.

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9780224011617: On the Psychology of Military Incompetence

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ISBN 10 : 0224011618 ISBN 13 : 9780224011617

Editeur : Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1976

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The Crimea, the Boer War, the Somme, Tobruk, Pearl Harbor, the Bay of Pigs: these are just some of the milestones in a century of military incompetence, of costly mishaps and tragic blunders. Are these simple accidents as the bloody fool” theory has it or are they inevitable?

The psychologist Norman F. Dixon argues that there is a pattern to inept generalship, and locates this pattern within the very act of creating armies in the first place, which in his view produces a levelling down of human capability that encourages the mediocre and limits the gifted. In this light, successful generals achieve what they do despite the stultifying features of the organization to which they belong. A classic study of military leadership, On the Psychology of Military Incompetence is at once an original exploration of the battles that have defined the last two centuries of human civilization and an essential guide for the next generation of military leaders.

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One does not have to share all, or even most, of Dixon's often rebarbative views to agree that this penetrating, self-knowing, often hilarious, and sometimes alarming book is a must-read. It is a classic of military history awaiting rediscovery today.”
Brendan Simms, author of Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy

An original, scientifically impressive and fascinating book . . . a minor classic.”
Tablet

An absorbing, perceptive and often very funny study in human frailty.”
Listener

It should be compulsory reading wherever future officers are selected or trained, and deserves a very wide readership among psychologists and laymen.”
New Society

An intelligent man's guide to the defects of the military mind... Its conclusions are incontrovertible.”
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