Friendly fire incidents were an especially touchy subject in Britain after the Gulf War; this book compares such incidents throughout military history.
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This review is from: FRIENDLY FIRE: Accidents in Battle from Ancient Greece to the Gulf War (Hardcover)
Those looking for a serious analysis of the history and reasons fratricide occurs will be dissappointed with this work, which fails to live up to its ambitious sub-title: 'Accidents in Battle from Ancient Greece to the Gulf War'. That is, the breadth simply is not there. In addition, Bickers very often substitutes 'ad hominem' for more substantive reasons fratricide incidents occur. No doubt, studipity and other human frailties and foolishness are at fault in many cases, but Bickers does not offer those who fired the ill-fated shots of fratricide the possibility for rejoinder. Hence, one of his main problems is historiographical. In addition, Bickers digresses too much to stories which, although interesting, would be well-suited in books of another topic. Such a digression to peripheral commentary adds little, if anything, to the discussion of fratricide and why it occurs. This factor impairs the usefulness of the work, which proves to be a book out of focus. Despite these overall impairments, the book does have something to commend it. Bickers highlights many cases of fratricide which occured in World War Two, which many readers are probably unaware of. At the end of the book he includes a list of why fratricide incidents are likely to occur in the future. As it turns out, these reasons correlate well with current professional literature on the subject. Hence, I would recommend the book to be included in a study of the subject of fratricide, but it is certainly not the definitive source.
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