The Challenges of High Command: The British Experience

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
The Challenges of High Command in the Twentieth Century....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
British High Command in the First World War: An Overview....Pages 15-25
Ratcatchers and Regulators at the Battle of Jutland....Pages 26-33
The Gallipoli Campaign: Command Performances....Pages 34-56
Front Matter....Pages 57-57
Scandinavian Disaster: Allied Failure in Norway in 1940....Pages 59-72
The Very Model of a Modern Manoeuvrist General: William Slim and the Exercise of High Command in Burma....Pages 73-87
The Art of Manoeuvre at the Operational Level of War: Lieutenant-General W.J. Slim and Fourteenth Army, 1944–45....Pages 88-112
Lessons Not Learned: The Struggle between the Royal Air Force and Army for the Tactical Control of Aircraft, and the Post-mortem on the Defeat of the British Expeditionary Force in France in 1940....Pages 113-125
Sir Arthur Harris: Different Perspectives....Pages 126-136
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
The Realities of Multi-national Command: An Informal Commentary....Pages 139-145
Reinventing Command in United Nations Peace Support Operations: Beyond Brahimi....Pages 146-176
Reaching for the End of the Rainbow: Command and the Revolution in Military Affairs....Pages 177-206
Back Matter....Pages 207-216