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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... cent casualties , with the actual first wave Regimental Combat Teams ( RCTs ) suffering 25 per cent . Some 70 per cent of these would , they assumed , be wounded , 30 per cent would be dead , missing or Prisoners of War ( POWs ) . The ...
... cent casualties , with the actual first wave Regimental Combat Teams ( RCTs ) suffering 25 per cent . Some 70 per cent of these would , they assumed , be wounded , 30 per cent would be dead , missing or Prisoners of War ( POWs ) . The ...
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... cent and possibly 25 per cent of those involved could expect to be killed or wounded though many of the ordinary soldiers seemed unaware of the casualty figures expected by the top brass.11 Cossack certainly planned for 10 per cent of ...
... cent and possibly 25 per cent of those involved could expect to be killed or wounded though many of the ordinary soldiers seemed unaware of the casualty figures expected by the top brass.11 Cossack certainly planned for 10 per cent of ...
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... cent of US forces did not make it through the war unscathed . Two per cent died in action , 1 per cent died from wounds or disease and 4 per cent were wounded but lived . In contrast , by July 1944 over one third of the German army had ...
... cent of US forces did not make it through the war unscathed . Two per cent died in action , 1 per cent died from wounds or disease and 4 per cent were wounded but lived . In contrast , by July 1944 over one third of the German army had ...
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