Friendly Fire: The Accidental Shootdown of U.S. Black Hawks over Northern Iraq - Couverture rigide

Snook, Scott A.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0691005060 ISBN 13 : 9780691005065

Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2000

Synopsis

On April 14, 1994, two U.S. Air Force F-15 fighters accidentally shot down two U.S. Army Black Hawk Helicopters over Northern Iraq, killing all twenty-six peacekeepers on board. In response to this disaster, the complete array of military and civilian investigative and judicial procedures ran their course. After almost two years of Investigation with virtually unlimited resources, no culprit emerged and no smoking gun was found. Friendly Fire attempts to make sense of this tragedy. Lieutenant Colonel Snook, a victim of friendly fire himself, develops individual, group, organizational, and cross-level accounts of the accident and applies a rigorous analysis based on behavioral science theory to account for critical links in the causal chain of events. He offers a dynamic mechanism he calls "practical drift" - the slow, steady uncoupling of practice from written procedure - to complete his explanation of this tragic event.

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À propos de l'auteur

United States Army LTC Scott A. Snook serves as an Academy Professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership at the United States Military Academy. He also directs West Point's Center for Leadership and Organizations Research.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Princeton University Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0691005060
• ISBN 13: 9780691005065
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 280
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