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Monty'S Functional Doctrine - Combined Arms Doctrine in British 21st Army Group in Northwest Europe, 1944-45 (Paperback)
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Monty'S Functional Doctrine - Combined Arms Doctrine in British 21st Army Group in Northwest Europe, 1944-45 (Paperback)
Series: Wolverhampton Military Studies
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Using a combination of new perspectives and new evidence, this book
presents a reinterpretation of how 21st Army Group produced a
successful combined arms doctrine by late 1944 and implemented this
in early 1945. Historians, professional military personnel and
those interested in military history should read this book, which
contributes to the radical reappraisal of Great Britain's fighting
forces in the last years of the Second World War, with an
exploration of the reasons why 21st Army Group was able in 1944-45
to integrate the operations of its armour and infantry. The key to
understanding how the outcome developed lies in understanding the
ways in which the two processes of fighting and the creation of
doctrine interrelated. This requires both a conventional focus on
command and a cross-level study of Montgomery and a significant
group of commanders. The issue of whether or not this integration
of combat arms (a guide to operational fighting capability) had any
basis in a common doctrine is an important one. Alongside this
stands the new light this work throws on how such doctrine was
created. A third interrelated contribution is in answering how
Montgomery commanded, and whether and to what extent, doctrine was
imposed or generated. Further it investigates how a group of
'effervescent' commanders interrelated, and what the impact of
those inter-relationships was in the formulation of a workable
doctrine. The book makes an original contribution to the debate on
Montgomery's command style in Northwest Europe and its
consequences, and integrates this with tracking down and
disentangling the roots of his ideas, and his role in the creation
of doctrine for the British Army's final push against the Germans.
In particular the author is able to do something that has defeated
previous authors: to explain how doctrine was evolved and,
especially who was responsible for providing the crucial first
drafts, and the role Montgomery played in revising, codifying and
disseminating it.
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