Since it was first publisd in 1990, Military Misfortunes has become the clas-sic analysis of the unexpected catastrophes thet befall competent militaries. Now with a new Afterword discussing America's missteps in lraq, Somalia, and the war on Terror,Eliot A.Cohen and john Gooch's gripping battlefield narratives and groundbreaking explanations of the hidden factors that undermine armies are brought thoroughly up to date. As recent events prove, Military Misfortunes will be required reading for as long as armies go to war.

Eliot A.Cohen is Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, the Johns Hopkins University. He came to SAIS in 1990 following service on the policy planning staff of the Office of the Secretary of Defense and previ-ous teaching posts at Harvard Umiversity and the Naval War College. He is a frequent consltant to the Department of Defense and the intel-ligence community and is the author of, among other books, Supreme Command:Keadersbip in Wartime(Free Pess, 2002).

John Gooch is a professor of history at the University of Lancaster, England. One of Britain's leading military historians, he has also been a visiting professor at Yale and the U.S.Naval War College. The founding editor of the Journal of strategic studies and chairnam of the Army Records Society, he is the author of a number of books, including the plans of war and Armies in Eutope.