Ebook89 pages43 minutes
When Should A Commander Be Relieved?: A Study Of Combat Reliefs Of Commanders Of Battalions And Lower Units During The Vietnam Era
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
About this ebook
This study attempts to determine when commanders of battalions and lower units should be relieved during combat. The investigation analyzed actual reliefs during the Vietnam era to determine why the commanders were relieved, the availability of replacements, the role of counselling, and the effect on the unit.
Investigation reveals that most reliefs were not caused by a single deficiency but rather by a combination of perceived shortcomings. Mission failure was not a significant reason for relief. Captains and lieutenants were more likely to be relieved than were lieutenant colonels. Replacements for the relieved commanders were usually available. Most reliefs were effected without prior counselling. The effect of the relief on the unit depended primarily on the unit's evaluation of the relieved commander's leadership and popularity.
Further examination of the causes and effects of reliefs produced guidelines for commanders to consider before relieving a subordinate commander.
Investigation reveals that most reliefs were not caused by a single deficiency but rather by a combination of perceived shortcomings. Mission failure was not a significant reason for relief. Captains and lieutenants were more likely to be relieved than were lieutenant colonels. Replacements for the relieved commanders were usually available. Most reliefs were effected without prior counselling. The effect of the relief on the unit depended primarily on the unit's evaluation of the relieved commander's leadership and popularity.
Further examination of the causes and effects of reliefs produced guidelines for commanders to consider before relieving a subordinate commander.
Author
Major Thomas V. Draude
See Book Description
Related to When Should A Commander Be Relieved?
Related ebooks
Devil Dogs: Fighting Marines of World War I Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Rescue of Streetcar 304: A Navy Pilot's Forty Hours on the Run in Laos Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWarriors at 500 Knots: Duty and Pain Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGreat Naval Battles of the Pacific War: The Official Admiralty Accounts: Midway, Coral Sea, Java Sea, Guadalcanal & Leyte Gulf Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBritish Warship Recognition: The Perkins Identification Albums: Volume I: Capital Ships, 1895–1939 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Small Ships Courageous Men Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsU.S.S. Oregon and the Battle of Santiago Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOperational Failures Caused By Arrogant Leaders Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Bomber Command's Forgotten Summer: 1940 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fighting the Great War at Sea: Strategy, Tactics and Technology Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Presumed Lost: The Incredible Ordeal of America's Submarine POWs during the Pacific War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nelson the Sailor [Illustrated Edition] Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDecatur’s Bold and Daring Act: The Philadelphia in Tripoli 1804 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: Facts behind the Fiction Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUndersea Warriors Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLife in a Tank Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hero of the Angry Sky: The World War I Diary and Letters of David S. Ingalls, America’s First Naval Ace Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBattle Story: Goose Green 1982 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Short Life of a Valiant Ship Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Vs-931 Antisubmarine Squadron Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Convoy Commodore Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Off to War: A Young G.I. in the South Pacific Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRoyal Navy Torpedo Vessels: 1870–1914 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Little Help from Our Friends Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsD-Day 1944: The Making of Victory Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Tattie Lads: The untold story of the Rescue Tug Service in two world wars and its battles to save cargoes, ships and lives Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Fourth Force: The Untold Story of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary since 1945 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMarshall: Citizen Soldier Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIn the Hands of Fate: The Story of Patrol Wing Ten, 8 December 1941 —11 May 1942 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBargain Basement War Heroes: What Did You Do in Wwii, Grandpa? Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Wars & Military For You
Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Daily Creativity Journal Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Kingdom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of War & Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Making of the Atomic Bomb Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Mein Kampf: The Original, Accurate, and Complete English Translation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The God Delusion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The History of the Peloponnesian War: With linked Table of Contents Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unit 731: Testimony Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unacknowledged: An Expose of the World's Greatest Secret Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Washington: The Indispensable Man Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for When Should A Commander Be Relieved?
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
When Should A Commander Be Relieved? - Major Thomas V. Draude
62^ book_preview_excerpt.html XrpBGtOA& бrc pDo
J_VKou$Vr)d^UWb}b?IQeAjrGsof c
#/FS/~nJ%o3Y)d;^UIՋNh=*K[
*ۚr2Z5rKj2 DiV5ò,˷uZfq; ~ވDObsj
e4`W/-RYSE.C_hABut `hL R}a-%LDMY[ΛZ'F[SBilE\h@2
plD3O ]qr[*YclA2&d~y-]#qXz%"!Oj#TYӂt%36Hi]<p$ZY4w@zRo[(6 F֊%b-R[& ,6I&jbK @
8YE^&e)RySII;+h;U$YJA~e-rSwph_|)dđR_(%;r-_YE,E6l*+EJBeu"oMH<)}=ܹ>Ewb:!l7K;{w'\DbH
SD݉1p;S/#!M[^dKQ|ҽƾ3#7tP$_Vw̉~HYL͜h4FC[(.")|$`iʉ;NeΙy~z6e u
֛̓0vODb6M}G}8`v=xxHg Н=DEOipHg}Qnʹ7
bS#g6rM"c,.܈/tido}:0 D?YoL>-\pl;{R wAARςP
Dz]3b#Լ{:OלՋV="/v?>Q{+ ],AH?$LD^|G~CiZyoBH;Oǯq".9^<܆S!qxFܯ~iYUs1Oż2bFǍso'"^.̎}HxgM|4|;EoS@yQ\o~ g3O +eq)-kG("ngVa{EG ahhyoѩcO7^