Meanings
plural misgeneralizations · alternative misgeneralisation
- An incorrect generalization.
The problem was that this concept was a misgeneralization from the Gulf War and did not fit conflicts like that in Bosnia, where the nature of the warfare was less conventional and where the strategy had to be more of a political-military one linked more closely to diplomacy and negotiations.
2002, Robert J. Lieber, editor, Eagle Rules?: Foreign Policy and American Primacy in the Twenty-First Century, Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 272
Origin
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