Challenges of High Command

DUNCAN ANDERSON Head of Department of War Studies, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, UKANDREW GORDON Reader, Defence Studies Department, King's College London, Joint Services Command and Staff CollegeSTUART GORDON Senior Lecturer, Department of Defence and International Affairs, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, UKCHRISTINA GOULTER Senior Lecturer, Defence Studies Department, King's College London, Joint Services Command and Staff CollegeDAVID HALL Lecturer, Defence Studies Department, King's College London, Joint Services Command and Staff CollegeMIKE JACKSON Commander-in-Chief, UK Land ForcesNIGEL DE LEE Senior Lecturer, Department of War Studies, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, UKROBERT LYMAN Former British Army OfficerMUNGO MELVIN Chief Engineer, Allied Rapid Reaction CorpsSTUART PEACH Commandant, UK Air Warfare Centre

• 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