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 44
... establish a successful lodgement on the French coast . Planning Overlord was Tame in the sense that there was a ... establishing the kind of effective concentration of fire against the over- narrow beach - head that Salerno had witnessed ...
... establish a successful lodgement on the French coast . Planning Overlord was Tame in the sense that there was a ... establishing the kind of effective concentration of fire against the over- narrow beach - head that Salerno had witnessed ...
Page 46
... establish that many of the beach fortifications were constructed to provide enfilading fire onto the beaches with their seaward side ... established which sections of these roads were the most difficult 46 LEADERSHIP AND WICKED PROBLEMS.
... establish that many of the beach fortifications were constructed to provide enfilading fire onto the beaches with their seaward side ... established which sections of these roads were the most difficult 46 LEADERSHIP AND WICKED PROBLEMS.
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... established in 1938. A British Landing Craft Mechanized ( LCM ) existed in 1926 and by September 1939 the ISTDC had already established the standard format for the Landing Craft Assault ( LCA ) for carrying 35 soldiers and four crew ...
... established in 1938. A British Landing Craft Mechanized ( LCM ) existed in 1926 and by September 1939 the ISTDC had already established the standard format for the Landing Craft Assault ( LCA ) for carrying 35 soldiers and four crew ...
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