"chain of mistakes" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to refer to a series of mistakes that have been made, which may have led to a larger problem. For example: "After a series of bad decisions and a chain of mistakes, Mary had to give up her dream of starting her own business."
"There's nothing to study except a chain of mistakes and many wars".
That, he said, was the "first link in a chain of mistakes".
Cards fed into a machine, or written, out of alignment could set off a chain of mistakes.
Mr. Corcino, in his first public statement, attributed the breach to "a chain of mistakes which are far too easy to make when handling electronic data".
Although an Army investigation that was made public on Monday found that the soldiers did not act out of "malicious intent" to disrespect the Koran or defame Islam, investigators concluded that they did not follow proper procedures, were ignorant of the importance of the Koran to Afghans and got no clear guidance from their leaders in a chain of mistakes.
Recent history thus suggests that the greatest danger we now face is not that Donald Trump and Kim will decide to go to war, but that isolated individuals who most have never heard of, operating within the inevitable chain of mistakes and miscalculations that are the by-product of human weakness and exigent circumstances, will decide for them.
In one future episode a man goes to the emergency room and faces everyone's medical nightmare, a chain of human mistakes.
As Spiegel Online reports, the password-protected file with the unredacted cables was made available because of "a chain of careless mistakes, coincidences, indiscretions and confusion" that followed the splintering of the antisecrecy organization into rival factions over the past year.
Both men point out mistakes relating to tactical decisions, chain-of-command procedure, the amount of ordnance characters lift, and even the vintage of their uniforms.
The plot centres on the unfortunate chain of events that follow the mistaken identification of a young Judean man as a new religious leader.
In his review, Harvard Business School Professor Bruce Scott contends that although some of the Index's claims make sense, the editors have mistaken the chain of causation in many cases.
