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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... Planning Overlord was Tame in the sense that there was a science to it and routine processes already existed , but it was hardly a routine oper- ation : it required plans to move a city the equivalent of Birmingham in the UK across the ...
... Planning Overlord was Tame in the sense that there was a science to it and routine processes already existed , but it was hardly a routine oper- ation : it required plans to move a city the equivalent of Birmingham in the UK across the ...
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... plans for a 90 - day bombing campaign to destroy the French rail- way system and then to destroy the coastal ... Plan - to support D - Day . Fortuitously , the leaders of both air forces were also very concerned that if the Luftwaffe was ...
... plans for a 90 - day bombing campaign to destroy the French rail- way system and then to destroy the coastal ... Plan - to support D - Day . Fortuitously , the leaders of both air forces were also very concerned that if the Luftwaffe was ...
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... planning undertaken by the Admiralty , leaving subordinate commanders to do little except execute the plans as required . But the American naval system was far more flexible , with the naval hierarchy issuing outline plans and leaving ...
... planning undertaken by the Admiralty , leaving subordinate commanders to do little except execute the plans as required . But the American naval system was far more flexible , with the naval hierarchy issuing outline plans and leaving ...
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