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 209
... fighting for but we sure as hell knew what we were fighting against ' . That the task was a ' job ' both rationalized the killing and retained some form of link with their pre - war normality - though again for 1⁄4 of the employable ...
... fighting for but we sure as hell knew what we were fighting against ' . That the task was a ' job ' both rationalized the killing and retained some form of link with their pre - war normality - though again for 1⁄4 of the employable ...
Page 214
... fighting qualities of their American and British enemies and Colonel Trevor Dupuy , an American , suggested in 1977 that ' On a man for man basis , the German ground soldier consis- tently inflicted casualties at about a 50 per cent ...
... fighting qualities of their American and British enemies and Colonel Trevor Dupuy , an American , suggested in 1977 that ' On a man for man basis , the German ground soldier consis- tently inflicted casualties at about a 50 per cent ...
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... fighting for the survival of their country whereas the Allies were undertaken an unpleasant but necessary task ; the Germans did not have an apparently unending supply of troops or supplies which ensured that sooner or later victory ...
... fighting for the survival of their country whereas the Allies were undertaken an unpleasant but necessary task ; the Germans did not have an apparently unending supply of troops or supplies which ensured that sooner or later victory ...
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