This is a graphic account that looks at the psychology of military incompetence and the reasons even the most well-oiled military machines inflict disaster upon... » 

This is a graphic account that looks at the psychology of military incompetence and the reasons even the most well-oiled military machines inflict disaster upon themselves. The book covers blunders from the massacre of Varus in AD 9 up to the Bravo Two Zero SAS patrol in the Gulf War. «