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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... Singapore , and therefore the USA assumed that the post - war situation in the Pacific would be relatively simple to control . In effect , political leadership for all the Allies was as much concerned with the post- war settlement as it ...
... Singapore , and therefore the USA assumed that the post - war situation in the Pacific would be relatively simple to control . In effect , political leadership for all the Allies was as much concerned with the post- war settlement as it ...
Page 161
... Singapore and Tobruk against ostensibly ' inferior ' Japanese and German forces . Yet since 1942 British fortunes had improved considerably , and many of those soldiers involved in elite units in particular appeared keen to get on with ...
... Singapore and Tobruk against ostensibly ' inferior ' Japanese and German forces . Yet since 1942 British fortunes had improved considerably , and many of those soldiers involved in elite units in particular appeared keen to get on with ...
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... Singapore ' deserted ' or ' escaped ' depending on one's definition of their action in Singapore in 1942. In February 1943 , in Tunisia , elements of the 1st US Armoured Division panicked in the face of an attack by Rommel's Afrika ...
... Singapore ' deserted ' or ' escaped ' depending on one's definition of their action in Singapore in 1942. In February 1943 , in Tunisia , elements of the 1st US Armoured Division panicked in the face of an attack by Rommel's Afrika ...
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