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  <titleInfo>
    <title>On the psychology of military incompetence</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Dixon, Norman F.</namePart>
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  <originInfo>
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      <placeTerm type="text">New York</placeTerm>
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    <publisher>Basic Books</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c1976</dateIssued>
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  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>447 p. ; 22 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Introduction (Page-17), Generalship (Page-27), The Crimean War (Page-36), The Boer War (Page-52), Indian Interlude (Page-68), The First World War (Page-80), Cambria (page-86) The Siege of  Kut (Page-95), Between the Wars (Page-110), The Second World War (Page-123), Singapore (Page-130), Arnhem (Page-145), Is there a Case to Answer (Page-151), The Intellectual Ability of senior Military Commanders (Page-157), Military Organizations (Page-169), bullshit (Page-176), Socializations and the Anal Character (Page-186), Character and Honour (Page-196), Anti-Effeminacy (Page-208), Leaders of Men (Page-214), Militry  achievement (Page-238), Authoritarianism (Page-256), Mother of Incompetence (Page-280), Education and the Cult of Muscular Christianity (Page-288),Individual Differences (Page-305), Extremes of Authoritarianism (Page-309), The Worst and the Best (Page-318), Exceptions to the Rule ? (Page-354), Retreat (Page-393).</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Norman Dixon ; with a foreword by Shelford Bidwell.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Generals</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Militarism</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Military history</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Psychology, Military</topic>
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  <classification authority="ddc">355.02,DIX</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">0224011618</identifier>
  <identifier type="lccn">76009336</identifier>
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