Title: Friendly fire
First published: 2000
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.
Subjects: Accidents, Aerial reconnaissance, American, American Aerial reconnaissance, Black Hawk (Military transport helicopter), Case studies, Friendly fire (Military science), Investigation, Leadership, Management, Organizational behavior, United States, United States. Air Force, United states, air force, Black Hawk Friendly Fire Incident, Iraq, 1994, Managementunited states. air force, Aerial reconnaissance, american--iraq, Black hawk (military transport helicopter)--accidents--investigation, Friendly fire (military science)--iraq, Organizational behavior--case studies, Leadership--case studies, Ug765.i72 s63 2000, 355.4/22
Places: Iraq
LC classification: UG765.I72 S63 2000