Blinders, Blunders, and Wars What America and China Can Learn

• Main Author: Gompert, David C. (auth)
• Other Authors: Binnendijk, Hans (auth), Lin, Bonny (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: RAND Corporation 2014
• Subjects: Asian history; Defence strategy, planning & research; History of the Americas; History
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The history of wars caused by misjudgments, from Napoleon's invasion of Russia to America's invasion of Iraq, reveals that leaders relied on cognitive models that were seriously at odds with objective reality. Blinders, Blunders, and Wars analyzes eight historical examples of strategic blu...