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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... territory north of the Seine but the Americans preferred the flanking attack through Normandy ; again the US domination ... territories in North Africa was a preferable option to an imme- diate landing on the French mainland and thus was ...
... territory north of the Seine but the Americans preferred the flanking attack through Normandy ; again the US domination ... territories in North Africa was a preferable option to an imme- diate landing on the French mainland and thus was ...
Page 155
... territory . The consequence of the failure to consider the strategic necessity of a European presence was that virtually no preparation work was carried out by the time the BEF were sent to France in 1939. Indeed , only three divisions ...
... territory . The consequence of the failure to consider the strategic necessity of a European presence was that virtually no preparation work was carried out by the time the BEF were sent to France in 1939. Indeed , only three divisions ...
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... territory that ' highly mobile ' tanks were virtually irrele- vant . Indeed , the bocage countryside of Normandy was almost exactly designed to provide advantage to whichever side operated the best protected and best gunned vehicles ...
... territory that ' highly mobile ' tanks were virtually irrele- vant . Indeed , the bocage countryside of Normandy was almost exactly designed to provide advantage to whichever side operated the best protected and best gunned vehicles ...
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