Leadership, Management and Command: Rethinking D-DayThe author argues that the successes and failures of D-Day, on both sides, cannot be explained by comparing the competing strategies of each side. Instead he provides an account of the battle through the overarching nature of the relationship between the leaders and their followers. |
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... air strategy that was decimating their own aircrews , it was also about the domination of the air forces over the armies , and in the American case of building a political case for the separation of the air force ... air commanders were not ...
... air strategy that was decimating their own aircrews , it was also about the domination of the air forces over the armies , and in the American case of building a political case for the separation of the air force ... air commanders were not ...
Page 69
... Air Force ( formed to co - ordinate the ' immediate and direct support of the land battle ' ) , 55 either in the form of the 2nd Tactical Air Force ( TAF ) or the Air Defence of Great Britain ( ADGB ) . The TAF was an offensive ...
... Air Force ( formed to co - ordinate the ' immediate and direct support of the land battle ' ) , 55 either in the form of the 2nd Tactical Air Force ( TAF ) or the Air Defence of Great Britain ( ADGB ) . The TAF was an offensive ...
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... force never came . The Panzer groups were either too far away to intervene ... air and naval attacks and the Resistance sabotage and , in the absence of ... air , in disorganizing our supply to such an extent and to cause such losses of ...
... force never came . The Panzer groups were either too far away to intervene ... air and naval attacks and the Resistance sabotage and , in the absence of ... air , in disorganizing our supply to such an extent and to cause such losses of ...
Contents
Part Two Leadership and Wicked Problems | 19 |
Part Three Managing Tame Problems | 151 |
Part Four Commanding in Crises | 305 |
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29th Division Airborne Division aircraft Allied American Armoured Division artillery attack Badsey Balkoski Battalion battery battle bluffs bombardment bombers bombing Botting Bradley Brigade Caen Calais Canadian captured casualties cent Chandler and Collins Churchill combat commanders Company Corps counter-attack D-Day DD tanks defenders destroyed destroyers DUKWs Eiler Eisenhower enemy fighter fighting fire forces France French glider Gold Beach Hitler Infantry Division invasion June Juno Juno Beach killed landing craft LCTs leadership Linderman London Luftwaffe machine guns miles military Montgomery move naval Neillands Normandy Normann officers Omaha Beach Operation Ouistreham Panzer Division paratroopers Pitcairn-Jones Pointe du Hoc Quoted in Ambrose Quoted in Blandford Quoted in Collier Quoted in Delaforce Quoted in Kilvert-Jones Quoted in Linderman Rangers Regiment rifle Rommel Royal Rundstedt Ryan Sergeant shells Sherman ships soldiers St Lô strategy suggested Sword Beach target troops units Utah Utah Beach vehicles Wehrmacht Wicked Problem