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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... bombers began attacking the coastal defences , and as the light progressed so the shift to the medium and light bombers of the USAAF occurred . The final bomb- ing plan was agreed so late that only ten major batteries were targeted by ...
... bombers began attacking the coastal defences , and as the light progressed so the shift to the medium and light bombers of the USAAF occurred . The final bomb- ing plan was agreed so late that only ten major batteries were targeted by ...
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... bombers not strategic heavy bombers . Such an approach would also minimize civilian casualties while achieving the same unhinging of German transportation that the original Transportation Plan sought . On 7 May , just less than a month ...
... bombers not strategic heavy bombers . Such an approach would also minimize civilian casualties while achieving the same unhinging of German transportation that the original Transportation Plan sought . On 7 May , just less than a month ...
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... bombers began attacking the coastal defences , and as the light progressed so the shift to the medium and light bombers of the USAAF occurred . The final bombing plan was agreed so late that only ten major batteries were targeted by the ...
... bombers began attacking the coastal defences , and as the light progressed so the shift to the medium and light bombers of the USAAF occurred . The final bombing plan was agreed so late that only ten major batteries were targeted by 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