How to Lose a War

From the Crusades to the modern age of chemical warfare and smart bombs, history is littered with truly disastrous military campaigns. <strong>How to Lose a War... » 

From the Crusades to the modern age of chemical warfare and smart bombs, history is littered with truly disastrous military campaigns. How to Lose a War chronicles some of the most remarkable strategic catastrophes and doomed military adventures of overreaching invaders and clueless defenders-whether the failure was a result of poor planning, miscalculations, monumental ego, or failed intelligence ... or just a really stupid idea to begin with. Alexander invades India-and ends up in deep vindaloo; The French are humiliated by Prussia in 1870; Spain's invincible navy breaks up off the coast of britain while attempting an invasion; Chiang Kai-Shek's pathetic army fails to keep Mao's Communists from grabbing China. «