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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... British Army is how it managed to survive the Second World War at all , despite its successes in 1918. At the ... British Army did not prevail through all the units however , and the elite groups tended to organize themselves along ...
... British Army is how it managed to survive the Second World War at all , despite its successes in 1918. At the ... British Army did not prevail through all the units however , and the elite groups tended to organize themselves along ...
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... British establishment's paranoia about a standing army , such as that which ruled England under Cromwell's republican Commonwealth in the 17th century . British governments all of political persuasions had long accepted that a stand- ing ...
... British establishment's paranoia about a standing army , such as that which ruled England under Cromwell's republican Commonwealth in the 17th century . British governments all of political persuasions had long accepted that a stand- ing ...
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... British , New Zealand and Australian troops ) , the island fell.5 Crete was the last time the German army deployed ... British military was defensively minded or reluctant to embrace new technology or new ideas in general . On the ...
... British , New Zealand and Australian troops ) , the island fell.5 Crete was the last time the German army deployed ... British military was defensively minded or reluctant to embrace new technology or new ideas in general . On 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