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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... army . Still , as long as Hitler was persuaded by the logic of the British Minister for the co - ordination of ... Army , he declared , first , that the RAF was the real deterrent and only if that failed would the army be needed - hence ...
... army . Still , as long as Hitler was persuaded by the logic of the British Minister for the co - ordination of ... Army , he declared , first , that the RAF was the real deterrent and only if that failed would the army be needed - hence ...
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... army's leadership had only themselves to blame in the inter - war period for the serious lack of funding because it so seldom complained about the miserly budgets it was allocated . The army went out of its way to ask for little , even ...
... army's leadership had only themselves to blame in the inter - war period for the serious lack of funding because it so seldom complained about the miserly budgets it was allocated . The army went out of its way to ask for little , even ...
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... Army strength stood at a mere 170,000 . By 1943 the US army ( including the Army Air Force ) had grown to 7.2 million and was , at that time , probably the best equipped of any in the world . Most of those who served in the US Navy ...
... Army strength stood at a mere 170,000 . By 1943 the US army ( including the Army Air Force ) had grown to 7.2 million and was , at that time , probably the best equipped of any in the world . Most of those who served in the US Navy ...
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