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Church ill and his Generals (Brooke (He was the main burden of…
Church ill and his Generals
Brooke
He was the main burden of Churchill's interference in operational matters
Highly competent organiser
Cautious of deploying troops carefully in order to avoid heavy loss
Often annoyed by Churchill's thinking out loud
Diary shows long and exhaustive meetings
When it came to major disagreements there where fewer disagreements
Brooke did support action in Suez, deal with potential Italian threat in Northern Egypt
Wavell
Churchill gave little credit to his victories in North Africa
Churchill personally disliked him
Churchill took forces away from Wavell when the Italians invaded Greece
Cabinet made the decision to send troops to defend it
Wavell not given enough time to prepare as troops where taken off him and deployed on a deeply flawed campaign
when Germans invade, British had to retreat Crete and then defeated by German invasion
Auchinlek
Wavell's successor
Not prepared for premature attack on Germans
Annoy Churchill be delaying campaign in order to prepare
Sacked for delays and not being sufficiently daring
Montgomery
Auchinleck replacement
Won over Churchill with his confidence but insisted on thorough preparation which included accumulating twice the men that Rommel had before the attack at El Alamein
The credit of the first British victory should have gone to Auchinleck because of efficient preparations, however Churchill personally favour Montgomery so gave him the credit instead
Very slow at following up victory at El Alamein which allowed the Germans to retreat to Tunisia