Disputed Decisions of World War II: Decision Science and Game Theory Perspectives

by Mark Thompson

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 leaders--although outstanding in many ways--sometimes botched what now is termed meta-decision making or deciding how to decide. Operation Jubilee, a single-division raid on Dieppe, France, in August 1942, for example, illustrated the pitfalls of groupthink. In the Allied...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476680043
• ISBN13: 9781476680040
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Length: 213 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.9" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher