Barbara Tuchman Unwisdom

An Inquiry into the Unwisdom in Government Govern, a word all people want the power to use, but does anyone actually do the right thing. According to Barbara W. Tuchman in her essay "An Inquiry into the Persistence of Unwisdom in Government," the people in government make the wrong decisions by assessing situations incorrectly. In this essay Tuchman's main purpose is to show the distortion of government. Tuchman first uses the example of the French War in which at one point all the soldiers were placed at one part of the country leaving another wide-open to invasion only because someone "thought" the Germans would never choose a route such as that. In the end, the Germans did use that route which hurt the French and extended a war much