The road to total war
Examines the various factors that impelled leaders on both sides of the conflict in World War II to respond to immediate problems with actions resulting in effects that were often neither planned nor foreseen. Emotional pressures, the fog of war, and judgments blurred by wishful thinking can produce decisions, even self-destructive decisions, and lead down an inexorable path to all-out, total war.
Read More ↓Title Statements
- Full title :The road to total war / Frederick M. Sallagar.
Summary
Examines the various factors that impelled leaders on both sides of the conflict in World War II to respond to immediate problems with actions resulting in effects that were often neither planned nor foreseen. Emotional pressures, the fog of war, and judgments blurred by wishful thinking can produce decisions, even self-destructive decisions, and lead down an inexorable path to all-out, total war.
Read More ↓Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2007.
- Edition:New RAND ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):RAND Corp
- Place of Publication:Santa Monica, CA
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2007.
Notes
Originally published: New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1969.
The Physical Object
- Description:xi, 197 pages ; : 23 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780833042286, 0833042289
- oclc:ocn173807445
- LC Classification:D741
- Dewey Decimal:940.53/11
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