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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... Sherman and the decision to go ahead with it was taken in May 1942. But it was not until June 1944 , after D - Day , that the first of the 254 M4A3E2s arrived , complete with improved engine and suspension , in addition to the thicker ...
... Sherman and the decision to go ahead with it was taken in May 1942. But it was not until June 1944 , after D - Day , that the first of the 254 M4A3E2s arrived , complete with improved engine and suspension , in addition to the thicker ...
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... Sherman prevailed over the Pershing subsequently complained to the Ordnance Department - ironically the only ... Sherman was tested to a 40 - hour reliability minimum - though again many did not last that long.112 Once the US Army had ...
... Sherman prevailed over the Pershing subsequently complained to the Ordnance Department - ironically the only ... Sherman was tested to a 40 - hour reliability minimum - though again many did not last that long.112 Once the US Army had ...
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... Sherman , for complaints about it grew to a crescendo during the battle of the Bulge in the winter of 1944-5 when ... Sherman , given the increasingly bad publicity it was having at home - including a vociferous campaign for a ...
... Sherman , for complaints about it grew to a crescendo during the battle of the Bulge in the winter of 1944-5 when ... Sherman , given the increasingly bad publicity it was having at home - including a vociferous campaign for a ...
Contents
Part Two Leadership and Wicked Problems | 19 |
Part Three Managing Tame Problems | 151 |
Part Four Commanding in Crises | 305 |
Copyright | |
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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