Metamorphosis pt. 1: The Age of Mutual Incomprehension
Fight Like An Animal
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The Role of Coercion in Societies
"Wooden-headedness" occurs everywhere from allegedly communist Russia to the business class in America, he says. "The source of self-deception is a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government," Tushman writes. The French war plan of 1914 conceived an o' mood of total dedication to the offensive; it concentrated everything on a French advance to the Rhine,. A strategy that could only be justified by the fixed belief that the Germans could not deploy enough manpower and would never use reserve troops.
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