Disputed Decisions of World War II

Decision Science and Game Theory Perspectives

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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 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.

Author Biography:

Mark Thompson was a full-time professor at Harvard University from 1975 to 1983. He has also been a visiting professor at the Université de Paris and the Universität Bielefeld in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. As a professor, he taught courses on decision science, game theory, and social program evaluation. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts.

Release date Australia

December 23rd, 2019

Author

Mark Thompson

Pages

213

Audience

General (US: Trade)

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maps

Dimensions

178x254x11

ISBN-13

9781476680040

Product ID

31953252

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