On the Psychology of Military Incompetence | Norman F. Dixon

#ads Stream any unabridged audiobook of your choice with premium access by starting your trial on:https://booksreader.space/al-1976/Title: On the Psychology of Military Incompetence Author: Norman F. Dixon Narrator: James Langton Format: mp3 Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins Release date: 11-07-23 Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 18 ratings Genres: Russia Publisher's Summary: 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.