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Military Incompetence Paperback - 1986

by Richard A. Gabriel


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The history of American military operations in the post-Vietnam era has been marked by failure and near-disaster. Since 1970, American forces have been committed in five operations--in Sontay to rescue prisoners, in Cambodia on behalf of the crew of the Mayaguez, in Iran to rescue the American hostages, in Beirut, and in Grenada--and in each case they have failed. Gabriel tells how and why each was crippled by faulty intelligence, clumsy execution, or poor planning by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Much of his information is still classified by the Pentagon and is revealed here for the first time. Finally, Gabriel offers a prescription for reform based on his twenty-one years of military experience.

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  • Title Military Incompetence
  • Author Richard A. Gabriel
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Fourth Printing
  • Pages 228
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl, Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A
  • Date 1986-08-01
  • ISBN 9780374521370 / 0374521379
  • Weight 0.77 lbs (0.35 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 6.12 x 0.6 in (22.61 x 15.54 x 1.52 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 355

About the author

Richard A. Gabriel, professor of politics at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., served twenty-two years as an active intelligence officer, much of it spent at the Directorate of Foreign Intelligence in the Pentagon. A consultant to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees, he is the author of numerous books on military subjects, including Operation Peace for Galilee and Crisis in Command (with Paul Savage).

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