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 leadersalthough outstanding in many wayssometimes botched what now is termed metadecision making or deciding how to decide. Operation Jubilee, a singledivision raid on Dieppe, France, in August 1942, for example, illustrated the pitfalls of groupthink. In the Allied invasion of North Africa three months later, American and British leaders fell victim to the planning fallacy having unrealistically rosy expectations of an easy victory. In Sicily in the summer of 1943, they violated the millenniaold principle of command unitynow reendorsed and elaborated on by modern theorists. Had Allied strategists understood the game theory of bluffing, in January 1944 they might well not have landed twoplus divisions at Anzio in Italy.

Binding: Paperback;214 pages; Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.; Classification: HBWQ; Weight: 506 g; Dimensions: 254 x 178 x 11

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