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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... involved administrative positions ( he had served as a desk - bound major for 20 years ) he had by 1943 overseen three successful joint Allied amphibious landings and his diplomatic and political skills were regarded by many as an ...
... involved administrative positions ( he had served as a desk - bound major for 20 years ) he had by 1943 overseen three successful joint Allied amphibious landings and his diplomatic and political skills were regarded by many as an ...
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... involved - precisely what the German High Command suspected and precisely wrong . 12 All this was supported by ' helpful ' photographs published in the National Geographic showing soldiers with fictional shoulder badges.13 The ...
... involved - precisely what the German High Command suspected and precisely wrong . 12 All this was supported by ' helpful ' photographs published in the National Geographic showing soldiers with fictional shoulder badges.13 The ...
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... involved 175,000 Allied troops and 50,000 vehicles , all of which were landed either by air , using 11,000 planes , or by sea , using 6,833 ships , and all within 24 hours . The battle for Normandy , which D - Day initiated , lasted ...
... involved 175,000 Allied troops and 50,000 vehicles , all of which were landed either by air , using 11,000 planes , or by sea , using 6,833 ships , and all within 24 hours . The battle for Normandy , which D - Day initiated , lasted ...
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