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
... managed to tame the problem : 99.4 per cent of the US population involved in the greatest war it had ever fought ... managed to rotate one of their three regiments out of the line but they were always stationed in reserve just behind the ...
... managed to tame the problem : 99.4 per cent of the US population involved in the greatest war it had ever fought ... managed to rotate one of their three regiments out of the line but they were always stationed in reserve just behind the ...
Page 245
... managed to get 11,000 troops on board on each one of its four high tides ; by D - Day this had been increased to a daily total of 54,000 troops and 7,000 vehicles , while Portsmouth managed 29,000 troops . But to do this another 23 ...
... managed to get 11,000 troops on board on each one of its four high tides ; by D - Day this had been increased to a daily total of 54,000 troops and 7,000 vehicles , while Portsmouth managed 29,000 troops . But to do this another 23 ...
Page 379
... managed to get at least one rope up to the top . The Rangers had managed to climb up by situating sections of the scaling ladders on top of the 40 feet mound of debris brought down by the bombardment . They then gradually added addi ...
... managed to get at least one rope up to the top . The Rangers had managed to climb up by situating sections of the scaling ladders on top of the 40 feet mound of debris brought down by the bombardment . They then gradually added addi ...
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