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Disputed Decisions of World War II - Decision Science and Game Theory Perspectives (Paperback)
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Disputed Decisions of World War II - Decision Science and Game Theory Perspectives (Paperback)
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A former Harvard professor of decision science and game theory
draws on those disciplines in this review of controversial
strategic and tactical decisions of World War II. Allied
leadership-although outstanding in many ways-sometimes botched what
now is termed meta-decision making or deciding how to decide.
Operation Jubilee, a single-division amphibious raid on Dieppe in
August 1942, illustrates the pitfalls of groupthink. Prior to the
invasion of North Africa in November, American and British leaders
fell victim to the planning fallacy, going in with rosy
expectations for easily achievable objectives. In the conquest of
Sicily, they violated the millennia-old principle of command
unity-now re-endorsed and elaborated on by modern theorists. Had
Allied tacticians understood the game-theoretic significance of the
terrain and conditions for success at Anzio, they might well not
have and landed two-plus divisions there to fight a months-long
stalemate in the first half of 1944.
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