Blue on Blue

Résumé du livre

From renowned military historian Geoffrey Regan comes a gripping look at war's most incomprehensible tragedies -- a study of the subject of unforgettable true accounts of disastrous panics & fatal mistakes from ancient Athens to Pork Chop Hill to the Persian Gulf. Friendly fire, the accidental killing of troops by their own forces, is also known as blue-on-blue. Chapters of the book include: storm in the desert; ground warfare from ancient times to the First World War; ground warfare from 1914 to the present day; blue-on-blue in air warfare; blue-on-blue in naval warfare; discipline & friendly fire; afterword; & bibliography.