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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Page 48
... clear west area with 8th Infantry Brigade 4 Commando to clear Ouistreham 6th ( British ) Airborne Division ( x 5th Parachute Brigade ) : To land east of Caen across the River Orne to secure eastern flank The overall plan also envisioned ...
... clear west area with 8th Infantry Brigade 4 Commando to clear Ouistreham 6th ( British ) Airborne Division ( x 5th Parachute Brigade ) : To land east of Caen across the River Orne to secure eastern flank The overall plan also envisioned ...
Page 122
... clear to the attackers whether it was the first elements of a deep soft shell or simply a few isolated defenders ; whatever it was , the Allies tended to halt and call up an artillery barrage or ground - attack aircraft to clear the ...
... clear to the attackers whether it was the first elements of a deep soft shell or simply a few isolated defenders ; whatever it was , the Allies tended to halt and call up an artillery barrage or ground - attack aircraft to clear the ...
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... clear landing zones of 1,000 yards by 60 yards and to illuminate them with lights . The 6th Airborne Division then felled 100 trees in the New Forest and erected them in the same pattern to establish the best way to clear them . In the ...
... clear landing zones of 1,000 yards by 60 yards and to illuminate them with lights . The 6th Airborne Division then felled 100 trees in the New Forest and erected them in the same pattern to establish the best way to clear them . In 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