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 67
... particularly Harris , insisted that the kinds of targets Zuckerman required to be hit in the Transportation Plan were simply beyond the capabilities of strategic bombers . What particularly riled Spaatz was Leigh - Mallory's insistence ...
... particularly Harris , insisted that the kinds of targets Zuckerman required to be hit in the Transportation Plan were simply beyond the capabilities of strategic bombers . What particularly riled Spaatz was Leigh - Mallory's insistence ...
Page 89
... particularly Kurt Student , founder of the German airborne forces were aware of the book they assumed , wrongly , that it was just part of the deception plan to turn attention away from the Pas de Calais . In fact Fortitude was itself ...
... particularly Kurt Student , founder of the German airborne forces were aware of the book they assumed , wrongly , that it was just part of the deception plan to turn attention away from the Pas de Calais . In fact Fortitude was itself ...
Page 212
... particularly concerned : ' Three army groups , each of approximately the same strength , were to attack diverging objectives ; no single clear operational objective seemed to be envisaged'.3 Yet for the most part the German economy ...
... particularly concerned : ' Three army groups , each of approximately the same strength , were to attack diverging objectives ; no single clear operational objective seemed to be envisaged'.3 Yet for the most part the German economy ...
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