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Military rivalry causes friendly fire deaths new scientist. Snook s friendly fire is an account of the 1994 shoot down of us army blackhawk helicopters by us f15 fighters over iraq. Snook uses this as a compelling case study of a complex organization where both leading and organizing failed in a big way. Forcefield analysis restraining forces driving forces differentiation creates integrative challenges snook, p. Being a student of the dynamics of complex organizations, friendly fire is my alltime favorite study and. Friendly fire is a wellknown hazard, and a large number of controls were in place at each level of the. Bryan, including rare images from the authors estate. Each of these sources gives different explanations of the accident, in some aspects significantly different, due to a focus on different factors involved. Individual action in complex military organizations is synchronized and standardized through a dense web. A victim of friendly fire himself, he develops individual, group, organizational, and crosslevel accounts of the accident and applies a rigorous analysis based on behavioral science theory to account for.
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