The Psychology of Strategy: Exploring Rationality in the Vietnam War

by Kenneth Payne

Book Overview

How do strategists decide what they wish to achieve through war, and how they might accomplish it? And why does their understanding of violence regularly turn out to be wrong? In seeking answers to these questions Kenneth Payne draws on the study of psychology to examine strategic behaviour during the Vietnam War. He explores the ways in which cognitive biases distort our sense of our own agency and our decision-making, arguing that much of the latter...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190227230
• ISBN13: 9780190227234
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"