On The Psychology Of Military Incompetence
Norman F Dixon, M Dixon
  • Published: 30 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446475737
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 448
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On The Psychology Of Military Incompetence

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A complete survey of 100 years of military history, for better or for worse

This unique and penetrating book surveys 100 years of military inefficiency from the Crimean War, through the Boer conflict, to the disasterous campaigns of the First World War and the calamities of the Second. It examines the social psychology of military organizations, provides case studies of individual commanders and identifies an alarming pattern in the causes of military disaster.

Absorbing and original, this is the definitive history of military failures.
  • Published: 30 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446475737
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 448
Categories:

About the authors

Norman F Dixon

Dr Norman F. Dixon, M.B.E., Fellow of the British Psychological Society, was Professor Emeritus of Psychology at University College London.

After ten years' commission in the Royal Engineers, during which time he was wounded ('largely through my own incompetence'), Professor Dixon left the Army in 1950 and entered university where he obtained a first-class degree in Psychology. He received the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy in 1956 and Doctor of Science in 1972, and in 1974 was awarded the University of London Carpenter Medal 'for work of exceptional distinction in Experimental Psychology'. He held an honorary doctorate from the University of Lund.

His other books include: Preconscious Processing, Subliminal Perception: the nature of a controversy, which was described by Professor George Westby as 'one of the most substantial works of British psychology of recent years', and Our Own Worst Enemy, which New Society praised as 'an elegant play on man's chaotic nature...diverse and arresting'.

M Dixon

Dr Norman F. Dixon, M.B.E., Fellow of the British Psychological Society, is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at University College London.

After ten years' commission in the Royal Engineers, during which time he was wounded ('largely through my own incompetence'), Professor Dixon left the Army in 1950 and entered university where he obtained a first-class degree in Psychology. He received the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy in 1956 and Doctor of Science in 1972, and in 1974 was awarded the University of London Carpenter Medal 'for work of exceptional distinction in Experimental Psychology'. He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Lund. His other books include: Preconscious Processing, Subliminal Perception: the nature of a controversy, which was described by Professor George Westby as 'one of the most substantial works of British psychology of recent years', and Our Own Worst Enemy, which New Society praised as 'an elegant play on man's chaotic nature...diverse and arresting'.

Praise for On The Psychology Of Military Incompetence

An intelligent man's guide to the defects of the military mind. . . Its conclusions are incontrovertible

Alan Sillitoe, Books and Bookmen

Shocking and provocative

New Society

Shocking and provocative

New Society

An absorbing, perceptive and often very funny study in human frailty... Stimulating and almost invariably provocative

Lord Chalfont, Listener

An absorbing, perceptive and often very funny study in human frailty... Stimulating and almost invariably provocative

Lord Chalfont, Listener

An original, scientifically impressive and fascinating book... This is a minor classic

Tablet

An original, scientifically impressive and fascinating book... This is a minor classic

Tablet

It should be compulsory reading wherever future officers are selected or trained, and deserves a very wide readership among psychologists and laymen

John Nicholson, New Society

It should be compulsory reading wherever future officers are selected or trained, and deserves a very wide readership among psychologists and laymen

John Nicholson, New Society

Classic book

New York Times

Original and stimulating...refreshingly objective and impartial

Sir Richard Clutterbuck, History