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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... Allied forces only Canada collected data from individual soldiers . Overall Allied casualties seem to be somewhere between 8,443 ( 4.3 per cent ) and 10,865 ( 5.5 per cent ) depending on whose figures are accepted . Roughly one - third ...
... Allied forces only Canada collected data from individual soldiers . Overall Allied casualties seem to be somewhere between 8,443 ( 4.3 per cent ) and 10,865 ( 5.5 per cent ) depending on whose figures are accepted . Roughly one - third ...
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... Allied soldiers died on D - Day than on many of the subsequent days of fighting . But while Allied technology in the form of superior aircraft and artillery , supported by the dominance of the Allied navies , ensured signif- icant ...
... Allied soldiers died on D - Day than on many of the subsequent days of fighting . But while Allied technology in the form of superior aircraft and artillery , supported by the dominance of the Allied navies , ensured signif- icant ...
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... Allied technologies , such as tank design . On D - Day it was the tactical Command of junior officers , NCOS and ordinary soldiers that rescued the so called strategic superior- ity of the Allied senior commanders . In contrast , the ...
... Allied technologies , such as tank design . On D - Day it was the tactical Command of junior officers , NCOS and ordinary soldiers that rescued the so called strategic superior- ity of the Allied senior commanders . In contrast , the ...
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