Friendly fire
Subtitle: the accidental shootdown of U.S. Black Hawks over Northern Iraq
By: Scott A. Snook.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
Subjects: United States. -- Air Force -- Management. -- Case studies.; Aerial reconnaissance, American -- Iraq.; Black Hawk (Military transport helicopter) -- Accidents -- Investigation.; Friendly fire (Military science) -- Iraq.; Organizational behavior -- Case studies.; Leadership -- Case studies.
Genres: Case studies.
Description: "On April 14, 1994, two U.S. Air Force F-15 fighters accidentally shot down two U.S. Army Black Hawk Helicopters over Northern Iraq, killing all twenty-six peacekeepers onboard. This book attempts to make sense of this tragedy - a tragedy that on its surface makes no sense at all.".

"With almost twenty years in uniform and a Ph.D. in organizational behavior, Lieutenant Colonel Snook writes from a unique perspective. A victim of friendly fire himself, he develops individual, group, organizational, and cross-level accounts of the accident and applies a rigorous analysis based on behavioral science theory to account for critical links in the causal chain of events.

By explaining separate pieces of the puzzle, and analyzing each at a different level, the author removes much of the mystery surrounding the shootdown. Based on a grounded theory analysis, Snook offers a dynamic, cross-level mechanism he calls "practical drift" -- the slow, steady uncoupling of practice from written procedure - to complete his explanation."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-249) and indexes.