Leadership, Management and Command Rethinking D-Day
by Grint, KeithFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2007-12-15
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary
Keith Grint 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.
Table of Contents
| List of Figures, Maps and Photos | p. vi |
| Acknowledgements | p. viii |
| Leadership, Management and Command at D-Day | p. 1 |
| Problems, Understanding and Decision-Making | p. 3 |
| Leadership and Wicked Problems | p. 19 |
| Western Allied Strategy: the Boxer and the Karateka | p. 23 |
| Allied Air Strategy | p. 59 |
| Planning to Mislead | p. 80 |
| German Strategy: Hard Shell, Soft Shell | p. 116 |
| Allied Ground Strategy | p. 135 |
| Managing Tame Problems | p. 151 |
| Mobilizing the Anglo-Canadians, the Commonwealth, and the Volunteers | p. 153 |
| Mobilizing the Americans: Technology and the Iceberg | p. 181 |
| Mobilizing the Germans: the Wehrmacht and the SS | p. 211 |
| Managing Logistics: 'Bag, vomit, one.' | p. 234 |
| Technologies | p. 264 |
| Commanding in Crises | p. 305 |
| Commanding | p. 307 |
| The Airborne Assaults | p. 322 |
| The Amphibious Landings | p. 350 |
| Retrospective | p. 415 |
| Post-D-Day | p. 417 |
| Notes | p. 429 |
| Bibliography | p. 484 |
| Index | p. 493 |
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