Disputed Decisions of World War II: Decision Science and Game Theory Perspectives

by Mark Thompson

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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 leaders--although outstanding in many ways--sometimes botched what now is termed meta-decision making or deciding how to decide. Operation Jubilee, a single-division raid on Dieppe, France, in August 1942, for example, illustrated the pitfalls of groupthink. In...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1476680043

ISBN13:9781476680040

Release Date:December 2019

Publisher:McFarland & Company

Length:213 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.9" x 9.9"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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