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 134
... strategic leaders causing strategic effects . But even this is difficult to maintain . The poor weather on the morning of D - Day effectively inhibited not just Allied bombing of the beaches but Allied destruction of German armoured ...
... strategic leaders causing strategic effects . But even this is difficult to maintain . The poor weather on the morning of D - Day effectively inhibited not just Allied bombing of the beaches but Allied destruction of German armoured ...
Page 149
... strategic objective : the defeat of Nazi Germany . But it is not self - evident that this success can be laid at their feet because there were so many other people involved in the result , including the Germans . That is not to say that ...
... strategic objective : the defeat of Nazi Germany . But it is not self - evident that this success can be laid at their feet because there were so many other people involved in the result , including the Germans . That is not to say that ...
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... strategic not tactical terms and success came through the superior plan- ning and better management of production but this was almost negated by the better tactical fighting abilities of the defenders . However , that superiority at the ...
... strategic not tactical terms and success came through the superior plan- ning and better management of production but this was almost negated by the better tactical fighting abilities of the defenders . However , that superiority at the ...
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