Presented by Mark Thompson, retired professor of decision science and game theory. On August 19, 1942, one thousand Allied servicemen, the majority Canadian soldiers, were killed and another 3,000 casualties were suffered in a nine-hour raid on the French town of Dieppe on the English Channel. Next to nothing was achieved in this attack, which historians have called “recklessly hare-brained.” How could several of the most astute decision makers of Great Britain – including Generals Alan Brooke and Bernard Montgomery – have concocted this tragic fiasco?

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