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 99
... Royal Navy's Administrative Code and the Navy Cypher and were reading up to half the Royal Naval signal traffic by April 1940 – though never the signals of Flag Officers or the Commanders - in - Chief . Only in 1944 was German ability ...
... Royal Navy's Administrative Code and the Navy Cypher and were reading up to half the Royal Naval signal traffic by April 1940 – though never the signals of Flag Officers or the Commanders - in - Chief . Only in 1944 was German ability ...
Page 155
... Royal Navy and Royal Air Force alone to ensure peace prevailed . The British government need not have been caught so unaware because from 1925 onwards the General Staff of the British Army had warned its political controllers that a ...
... Royal Navy and Royal Air Force alone to ensure peace prevailed . The British government need not have been caught so unaware because from 1925 onwards the General Staff of the British Army had warned its political controllers that a ...
Page 174
... Royal Marines were somewhat tardy and only organized the first of their nine Royal Marine Commando units ( Nos 40-48 ) in February 1942. The Royal Navy formed ' Beachhead Commandos ' to take control of the beaches during amphibious ...
... Royal Marines were somewhat tardy and only organized the first of their nine Royal Marine Commando units ( Nos 40-48 ) in February 1942. The Royal Navy formed ' Beachhead Commandos ' to take control of the beaches during amphibious ...
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