The Challenges of High Command
The British Experience
Published on 13. December 2002
Book
Hardback
XI, 216 pages
978-0-333-80438-4 (ISBN)
Description
The command and control of military operations is a difficult art. The Challenges of High Command explores British ideas of how this should be done and, with the guidance of some of Britain's leading military historians, looks at the practicalities of British experience in the First and Second World Wars. The contributors cast new light on themes as diverse as the trench warfare of the First World War, the conduct of the Gallipoli and Norway campaigns, and the command performance of Bomber Harris and Bill Slim. The Challenges of High Command concludes with a major review of how military operations should be conducted in the new political and technological conditions of today and includes an informal and frank commentary by General Sir Mike Jackson on his experience in Bosnia and Kosovo.
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Series
Edition
2003 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
XI, 216 p.
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 143 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
404 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-80438-4 (9780333804384)
DOI
10.1057/9780230505353
Schweitzer Classification
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Persons
DUNCAN ANDERSON Head of Department of War Studies, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, UK
ANDREW GORDON Reader, Defence Studies Department, King's College London, Joint Services Command and Staff College
STUART GORDON Senior Lecturer, Department of Defence and International Affairs, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, UK
CHRISTINA GOULTER Senior Lecturer, Defence Studies Department, King's College London, Joint Services Command and Staff College
DAVID HALL Lecturer, Defence Studies Department, King's College London, Joint Services Command and Staff College
MIKE JACKSON Commander-in-Chief, UK Land Forces
NIGEL DE LEE Senior Lecturer, Department of War Studies, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, UK
ROBERT LYMAN Former British Army Officer
MUNGO MELVIN Chief Engineer, Allied Rapid Reaction Corps
STUART PEACH Commandant, UK Air Warfare Centre
Content
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