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    Lessons Learned From Operation Market Garden
    Lessons Learned From Operation Market Garden
    Lessons Learned From Operation Market Garden
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    Lessons Learned From Operation Market Garden

    By Lieutenant Colonel Jennifer B. Fox

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    Operation Market Garden was the largest paratroop drop of the Second World War; It was also one of the worst operational failures. What strategy could have led the Allies to such an incredulous failure and what lessons can be learned for future military operations? Several timeless lessons are apparent from an analysis of the operation: (1) at the strategic level, military planners must never lose sight of the political reasons which fostered the initial conflict; (2) at the operational level, total coordination and planning with all elements of an operation remain critical to the successful execution of any plan; (3) logistics shortages caused the troops to be ill prepared; (4) most importantly, at the tactical level commanders must learn to "read the troops," watch their collective behavior and be ready to step in to keep them focused on the ultimate goal, the satisfactory completion of the mission; (5) from a leadership perspective, we learn that truly great leaders sacrifice their personal ambitions for the good of the unit effort and the successful execution of the mission.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLucknow Books
    Release dateAug 15, 2014
    ISBN9781782897217
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      Lessons Learned From Operation Market Garden - Lieutenant Colonel Jennifer B. Fox

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      Text originally published in 1994 under the same title.

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      Although in most cases we have retained the Author’s original spelling and grammar to authentically reproduce the work of the Author and the original intent of such material, some additional notes and clarifications have been added for the modern reader’s benefit.

      We have also made every effort to include all maps and illustrations of the original edition the limitations of formatting do not allow of including larger maps, we will upload as many of these maps as possible.

      Lessons Learned From Operation Market Garden

      by

      Jennifer B. Fox, Lieutenant Colonel, USAF

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Contents

      TABLE OF CONTENTS 4

      ABSTRACT 5

      BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH 6

      Introduction 7

      PRELUDE TO Market Garden 7

      D DAY MINUS 17 10

      The Operation. 17 September. 1944 15

      The Quest for the Ruhr: the Ill-fated Market Garden 17

      The Final Analysis 19

      Lessons Learned 23

      REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER 27

      BIBLIOGRAPHY 28

      ABSTRACT

      Operation Market Garden was the largest paratroop drop of the Second World War; It was also one of the worst operational failures. What strategy could have led the Allies to such an incredulous failure and what lessons can be learned for future military operations? Several timeless lessons are apparent from an analysis of the operation: (1) at the strategic level, military planners must never lose sight of the political reasons which fostered the initial conflict; (2) at the operational level, total coordination and planning with all elements of an operation remain critical to the successful execution of any plan; (3) logistics shortages caused the troops to be ill prepared; (4) most importantly, at the tactical level commanders must learn to read the troops, watch their collective behavior and be ready to step in

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