History’s Great Military Blunders and the Lessons They Teach
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Taught by Professor Gregory S. Aldrete UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN–GREEN BAY LECTURE TITLES
1. Petersburg: Union Digs Its Own Grave—1864 2. Syracuse: Athens’s Second Front—413 B.C. 3. Carrhae: The Parthian Shot—53 B.C. 4. Red Cliff s: Cao Cao’s Bad Day—208 A.D. 5. Barbarian Gate: Adrianople—378, Pliska—811 6. Fourth Crusade: Byzantium Betrayed—1204 7. Kalka River: Genghis Khan’s General—1223 8. Courtrai: Knights versus Shopkeepers—1302
9. Nagashino: Taking Swords to a Gunfi ght—1575
10. Cartagena: High Walls, Short Ladders—1741 11. Culloden: The Bonnie Prince Blunders—1746 12. Russia: Napoleon Retreats in the Snow—1812 13. Afghanistan: Khyber Pass Death Trap—1842 14. Crimea: Charge of the Light Brigade—1854 15. Greasy Grass: Custer’s Last Stand—1876 16. Isandlwana: 25,000 Zulus Undetected—1879 17. Adwa: Italy’s Fiasco in Ethiopia—1896 18. Colenso: The Second Boer War—1899 19. Tannenberg: Ineptitude in the East—1914
20. Gallipoli: Churchill Dooms Allied Assault—1915
21. World War II: Royal Navy Goes Down—1941–42
22. Dieppe Raid: Catastrophe on the Beach—1942
Are We Doomed to Repeat
History’s Great Military Failures? Full of dramatic reversals of fortune, colorful characters, and unlikely triumphs, History’s Great Military Blunders and the Lessons They Teach examines some of the world’s most notable examples of military misfortune, from the humiliating destruction of a Roman army at the Battle of Carrhae to the tragic landings at Gallipoli in World War I.
In a riveting and incisive tear of military history by Gregory S. Aldrete, Frankenthal Professor of History and Humanistic Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, these 24 lectures reveal how the trajectory of history hangs in the balance of individual battles and demonstrate that success and failure are two sides of the same coin. By confronting wartime mistakes, we can see the past from a new angle— and perhaps avoid making the same errors in the future.
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23. Operation Market Garden: A Bridge Too Far—1944
24. The Great Blunders: Four Paths to Failure
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