Overconfidence and War : : The Havoc and Glory of Positive Illusions / / Dominic D. P. Johnson.
Opponents rarely go to war without thinking they can win--and clearly, one side must be wrong. This conundrum lies at the heart of the so-called "war puzzle": rational states should agree on their differences in power and thus not fight. But as Dominic Johnson argues in Overconfidence and...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1 War and Illusions
- 2 Looking for Illusions
- 3 World War I
- 4 The Munich Crisis
- 5 The Cuban Missile Crisis
- 6 Vietnam
- 7 Vanity Dies Hard
- 8 Iraq, 2003
- Appendix
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index