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The Challenges of High Command

The British Experience

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  • © 2003

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Editors:
  1. Gary Sheffield

    1. Defence Studies Department, King’s College London, Joint Services Command and Staff College, Shrivenham, UK

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  2. Geoffrey Till

    1. Defence Studies Department, King’s College London, Joint Services Command and Staff College, Shrivenham, UK

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Part of the book series: Cormorant Security Studies Series (COSS)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. The Challenges of High Command in the Twentieth Century

    1. The Challenges of High Command in the Twentieth Century

      • Gary Sheffield
      Pages 1-12

  3. The First World War

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. British High Command in the First World War: An Overview

      • Gary Sheffield
      Pages 15-25

    3. Ratcatchers and Regulators at the Battle of Jutland

      • Andrew Gordon
      Pages 26-33

    4. The Gallipoli Campaign: Command Performances

      • Geoffrey Till
      Pages 34-56

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 207-216
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Defence Studies Department, King’s College London, Joint Services Command and Staff College, Shrivenham, UK

    Gary Sheffield, Geoffrey Till

About the editors

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

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