Great Military Blunders - Geoffrey Regan Reviews
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Newest Review: ... focuses on why each of these blunders occurred. Often responsibility lies with the leaders themselves, "Montgomery's ... more
... personal ambition led to 70 per cent of his troops being either killed or captured in Arnhem 1944". Sometimes the mistakes are political, such as the cold war paranoia which led to the US attack on Grenada 1983, effectively a 'staged' war with no enemy. And technology, too, often plays its part, like the Nato bombing of the Chinese Embassy in 1999. The book is divided into six categories, these are: Chapter 1: UNFIT TO LEAD Chapter 2: PLANNING Chapter 3: UNDERESTIMATING THE ENEMY Chapter 4: HU...more
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by - written on 27/01/01, updated on 27/01/01 (Very useful, 93 readings)
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The history of warfare has taught us many valuable lessons, but perhaps the most crucial lesson is to properly analyse every conflict, the mistakes as well as the successes to determine the causes. In Kosovo 1999, NATO attempted to do something history has warned them they must not, reliance on technology; and the outcome of the war for NATO was total failure, we are left with millions of Kosovan corpses, and a huge display of ethnic cleansing, all to the background noise of NATO aircraft flying 15,000ft over this rubble that was once Kosovo, offering token resistance to its oppressors. Acclaimed expert Geoffrey Regan analyses such military blunders in great ... Read the complete review
