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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... Zealand and Australian troops ) , the island fell.5 Crete was the last time the German army deployed large numbers of paratroopers from the air but it also marked a familiar pattern of superior German tactics and morale . Not that the ...
... Zealand and Australian troops ) , the island fell.5 Crete was the last time the German army deployed large numbers of paratroopers from the air but it also marked a familiar pattern of superior German tactics and morale . Not that the ...
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... Zealand after 1942 and Canada after 1943 ) and the British remained the most mobilized of all the warring nations . In 1941 as many as 94 per cent of eligible males between the ages of 14 and 64 were mobilized and by D - Day , of a ...
... Zealand after 1942 and Canada after 1943 ) and the British remained the most mobilized of all the warring nations . In 1941 as many as 94 per cent of eligible males between the ages of 14 and 64 were mobilized and by D - Day , of a ...
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... Zealand pilots flying RAF Spitfires ) or with the Royal New Zealand Air Force or the Royal Navy . Many of the landing craft on D - Day were also piloted by New Zealand naval crews . 100 7.7 Conclusion The paradox at the heart of the ...
... Zealand pilots flying RAF Spitfires ) or with the Royal New Zealand Air Force or the Royal Navy . Many of the landing craft on D - Day were also piloted by New Zealand naval crews . 100 7.7 Conclusion The paradox at the heart of 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