From Salerno To Rome: General Mark W. Clark And The Challenges Of Coalition Warfare

From Salerno To Rome: General Mark W. Clark And The Challenges Of Coalition Warfare
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Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Total Pages : 123
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ISBN-10 : 9781786250575
ISBN-13 : 1786250578
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Book Synopsis From Salerno To Rome: General Mark W. Clark And The Challenges Of Coalition Warfare by : Major Glenn L. King

Download or read book From Salerno To Rome: General Mark W. Clark And The Challenges Of Coalition Warfare written by Major Glenn L. King and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 9 September 1943 the United States Fifth Army landed at Salerno, commencing a lengthy and costly campaign that would transit the Italian Peninsula. Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark commanded this army. His many supporters, including Winston Churchill and General Dwight D. Eisenhower, considered him a brilliant staff officer and trainer. His detractors, including General George S. Patton, considered him overly ambitious and self serving. Clark had been promoted ahead of many senior and experienced officers, some of whom were now his subordinate commanders within the Fifth Army. His army would come under the jurisdiction of the Fifteenth Army Group, a combined American-British Headquarters commanded by General Harold Alexander, an Englishmen. Clark would command a number of foreign troops, including the British X Corps, the New Zealand Corps and the French Expeditionary Corps. Throughout this campaign, Clark would face the complexities of coalition command, tactical in nature but with strategic consequences. This thesis contends that the command arrangements within Fifteenth Army Group, together with biased perceptions, greatly influenced the decision making of General Clark, an accomplished staff officer yet inexperienced army commander.


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