Military incompetence refers to failures of members of the military.
Often, some of the following factors can contribute to these failures:
A conservative and traditional attitude, often marked by the misuse or rejection of newer technology and the inability to learn from experience.
Rejection of information which challenges preconceptions.
Overestimating the abilities of one's own side and underestimating those of the enemy.
Indecisiveness and the inability to consider swift action, marked by a failure to exploit battlefield gains.
Over-persistence.
Frontal assaults and brute force over surprise, deception and/or tactical skill.
In defeat, the search for scapegoats and the suppression of information.
A belief in fate or luck rather than a rational assessment.
[edit]
Military tactics is the collective name for methods of engaging and defeating an enemy in battle. ... The scapegoat was a goat that was driven off into the wilderness as part of the ceremonies of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, in Judaism during the times of the Temple in Jerusalem. ...
Further reading
N.F.Dixon - On the Psychology of Military Incompetence
Militaryincompetence refers to failures of military organisations, whether through incompetent individuals or through a flawed institutional culture.
The effects of isolated cases of personal incompetence can be disproportionately high in military organisations, where strict hierarchies of command and an institutional culture devoted to following orders without debate mean that a single bad decision can direct the work of thousands.
N.F.Dixon - On the Psychology of MilitaryIncompetence
Feeds |
Contact