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 185
... combat . Here , surely , was a manifestation of how the US had managed to tame the problem : 99.4 per cent of the US population involved in the greatest war it had ever fought ( beyond the American Civil War ) were never engaged in combat ...
... combat . Here , surely , was a manifestation of how the US had managed to tame the problem : 99.4 per cent of the US population involved in the greatest war it had ever fought ( beyond the American Civil War ) were never engaged in combat ...
Page 202
... combat soldier was not the distinction between the army and the paratroopers or the army and the air force , but between combat troops and those in the safety of the rear areas . In fact , only a small proportion of the huge number of ...
... combat soldier was not the distinction between the army and the paratroopers or the army and the air force , but between combat troops and those in the safety of the rear areas . In fact , only a small proportion of the huge number of ...
Page 454
... combat - except for those recruited to the SOE who sent 50 women agents to France . These women circumvented the combat prohibition by enrolling in the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry ( FANY ) ( Forty , 1998 : 318–19 ) . In 1999 women were ...
... combat - except for those recruited to the SOE who sent 50 women agents to France . These women circumvented the combat prohibition by enrolling in the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry ( FANY ) ( Forty , 1998 : 318–19 ) . In 1999 women were ...
Contents
Part Two Leadership and Wicked Problems | 19 |
Part Three Managing Tame Problems | 151 |
Part Four Commanding in Crises | 305 |
Copyright | |
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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