The president of a country has dedicated the bulk of the country’s military power to an invasion of a neighboring country. for a time, the war seems to be going his way. then the enemy begins to take the offensive, conducting massive encircling movements, taking tens of thousands of prisoners, and forcing whole divisions into retreat. still the president presses on, ordering more troops to the front, in spite of protests from his generals. this is known as

a. transfer of training.
b. communities of practice.
c. escalation of commitment.
d. a nonprogrammed decision.
e. a fundamental attribution error