The Challenges of High Command : The British Experience (Hardcover)

List of Tables and Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements PART I: THE FIRST WORLD WAR The Challenges of High Command in the Twentieth Century British High Command in the First World War: An Overview; G.Sheffield Ratcatchers and Regulators at the Battle of Jutland; A.Gordon The Gallipoli Campaign: Command Performances; G.Till PART II: THE SECOND WORLD WAR Scandinavian Disasters: Allied Failure in Norway in 1940; N.de Lee The Very Model of a Modern Manoeuvrist General: William Slim and the Exercise of High Command in Burma; D.Anderson The Art of Manoeuvre at the Operational Level of War: Lieutenant General W.J. Slim and Fourteenth Army 1944-45; R.Lynam Lessons Not Learned: The Struggle Between the RAF and Army for the Tactical Control of Aircraft and the Post-mortem on the Defeat of the BEF in France in 1940; D.Hall Sir Arthur Harris: Different Perspectives; C.Goulter PART III: THE CONTEMPORARY SCENE The Realities of Multi-National Command: An Informal Commentary; M.Jackson Reinventing Command in UN PSOs?: Beyond Brahimi; S.Gordon Reaching for the End of the Rainbow: Command and the RMA; M.Melvin & S.Peach