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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Page 83
... Pas de Calais as an impossible inva- sion site , given the defences constructed there , this did not mean that it could not be used and Fortitude South suggested , initially , that the Pas de Calais was the primary target and no forces ...
... Pas de Calais as an impossible inva- sion site , given the defences constructed there , this did not mean that it could not be used and Fortitude South suggested , initially , that the Pas de Calais was the primary target and no forces ...
Page 94
... Pas de Calais . If the orig- inal deception plan ( which limited Fortitude to persuading the Germans that the Pas de Calais was the only target ) had been pursued this would not have been a problem since Garbo would have achieved all ...
... Pas de Calais . If the orig- inal deception plan ( which limited Fortitude to persuading the Germans that the Pas de Calais was the only target ) had been pursued this would not have been a problem since Garbo would have achieved all ...
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... Pas de Calais . By the morning of 10 June the information had persuaded the German High Command to stop and reverse ... Calais . And , as a further direct consequence , seven new German divisions were sent immediately to the Pas de ...
... Pas de Calais . By the morning of 10 June the information had persuaded the German High Command to stop and reverse ... Calais . And , as a further direct consequence , seven new German divisions were sent immediately to the Pas de ...
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