The Challenges of High Command -

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Résumé :
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.

Biographie:
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

Sommaire:
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