Orchestrating Warfighting A History of the British Army’s Corps and Divisions at War since 1914

Introduction: The British Army’s Corps and Divisions at War since 1914: Histories of Command and the Operational Level of War

James E. Kitchen

1. The British Corps and Division in the Twentieth Century: Historical Evolution and Doctrinal Context

Paul Latawski

Part 1: The First World War

2. Imperial Warfighting: British and Empire Corps Command on the Western Front, 1914-18

Andy Simpson

3. The Indian Corps on the Western Front, 1914-15

Kaushik Roy

4. Engines of War: Supply and Transport in the Canadian Corps on the Western Front, 1914-16

Andrew Iarocci

5. British Army, Corps, and Divisional Command on the Somme: Planning and Executing the Attack on the Leipzig Salient, 3 July 1916

Stuart Mitchell

6. Almost a British Division? The New Zealand Division on the Western Front, 1916-18

Christopher Pugsley

7. ‘A sound and definite organization’: The Egyptian Expeditionary Force and Corps Planning for the Third Battle of Gaza, October-November 1917

James E. Kitchen

Part 2: The Second World War

8. Command in the 4^th Indian Division in North Africa, 1940-43

Kaushik Roy

9. ‘A man’s first battle is always his best’: Douglas Wimberley, the 51^st Highland Division, and the Battle of El Alamein

Christopher Mann

10. Indian Army Divisions in Italy, 1943-45

Alan Jeffreys

11. Freyberg and 2^nd New Zealand Division

Christopher Pugsley

12. British and Canadian Corps Command during the 1944-45 North-West Europe Campaign

Stephen Ashley Hart

13. Corps Command in Fourteenth Army: IV (British) and XXXIII Indian Corps at the Battles of Imphal and Kohima

Tim Bean

14. Orchestrating the Oboe Concerto: Planning and Command in I Australian Corps for the Borneo Campaign

Garth Pratten

15. Corps Commanders in the British and Indian Armies, 1944-45

Mark Frost

Part 3: The Post-1945 Period

16. The British-led 1^st Commonwealth Division in the Korean War, 1951-54

Paul Latawski

17. Divisional Operations in the Gulf Wars

Robert Johnson

18. The Future of the Divisional and Corps Echelon in British Warfighting

Jack Watling

Conclusion: Corps and Divisional Warfighting: Themes and Omissions

James E. Kitchen

Biography

Tim Bean is a Senior Lecturer in War Studies in the Department of War Studies, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, UK. He specialises in joint and combined operations with an emphasis on Headquarters South East Asia Command, 1943–45, and the Burma campaign in general.

Edward Flint is the Head of the Department of Defence and International Affairs at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, UK. His research interests include defence, security, and strategy, with a particular focus on the evolving role of Civil Affairs and Military Government during military operations.

James E. Kitchen is a Senior Lecturer in War Studies in the Department of War Studies, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, UK. His research interests include the global dimensions of the First World War and colonial conflict in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Paul Latawski is a Senior Lecturer in War Studies in the Department of War Studies, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, UK. His research interests include post-1945 British contingency operations, the evolution of urban warfare, British Army doctrine, and the history of the Polish Armed Forces.

"As the British army shifts away from stabilisation and counter-insurgency operations towards the need to prepare for the possibility that it might once again have to embark on high-intensity warfighting operations within a multi-domain context, the lessons highlighted in this book seem extremely timely." - David French, University College London, First World War Studies