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Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence form the backbone of the Armys operating system. But while much attention has been given in the literature to the other three elements, Communications in the British Army during World War II have been widely ignored. This book rectifies the omission. It shows that failures in front line communications contributed to several of the set backs suffered by the Army but also that ultimate victory was only achieved after a successful communications system was in place. It explains how the outcome of the main campaigns in Europe and North Africa depended on communications, how the system operated and how it evolved from a relatively primitive and inadequately supplied state at Dunkirk to a generally effective system at the time of the Rhine crossings. Problems still occurred however, for example at infantry platoon level and famously with paratrooper communications at Arnhem, often simply due to the shortcomings of existing technology. The book concludes that it is only very recently that advances in technology have allowed those problems to be solved.
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| 50 Bedford Square | 175 Fifth Avenue |
| London | New York |
| WC1B 3DP | NY 10010 |
| UK | USA |
| The OODA loop |
| OODA in the chain of command |
| Row of Fullerphones |
| Wireless No. 1 set mounted in a car |
| Wireless No. 3 set mounted in a lorry |
| The experience of 2 Divisional Signals, 10 May2 June 1940 |
| Dummy tanks and dummy trucks in the Western Desert |
| Function of a Beach Signal Office |
| Wireless carried by mule in Tunisia |
| The telephone exchange at Main Eighth Army headquarters, 4 March 1944 |
| Major General R. F. H. Nalder, Historian of the Royal Signals |
| Reserves held in corps ordnance field parks |
| No. 46 set |
| No. 22 set in close up and on a handcart in its waterproof bag |
| Landing Craft Assault |
| Cover to report on OVERLORD |
| The Bocage country in Normandy |
| Defrocked Priest Armoured personnel carrier |
| US SCR-536 walkie-talkie set in use during an amphibious landing |
| British No. 38 set |
| Characteristics of communication methods |
| Army budget for Warlike Stores |
| Main developments in communications doctrine, 191939 |
| Communications exercises during the 1920s |
| Production of war office signal equipment |
| Trades, Grades and numbers in Home Forces Royal Signals, October 1943 |
| Number of signallers in an infantry Signals regiment |
| Infantry wireless communications |
| Armoured division wireless communication |
| AA | Anti-aircraft |
| ACAB | Allied Central Air Bureau |
| ACV | Armoured Command Vehicle |
| AD | Armoured Division |
| AFHQ | Allied Force Headquarters |
| AFV | Armoured Fighting Vehicle |
| ATIP | Army Training Instruction Pamphlet |
| ATM | Army Training Memorandum |
| ATS | Auxiliary Territorial Service |
| BAFF | British Air Forces in France |
| BEF | British Expeditionary Force |
| BRA | Brigadier Royal Artillery |
| C2 | Command and Control |
| C3 | Command, Control and Communications |
| C3I | Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence |
| C in C | Commander in Chief |
| CIGS | Chief of the Imperial General Staff |
| CO | Commanding Officer |
| CRA | Commander Royal Artillery |
| CSO | Chief Signal Officer (of Corps or Division) |
| DAK | Deutsches Afrika Korps |
| DF | Direction Finding |
| DMI | Director of Military Intelligence |
| DR | Despatch Rider |
| DRLS | Despatch Rider Letter Service |
| FOO | Forward Observation Officer |
| FSP | Field Service Pocketbook |
| FSR | Field Service Regulations |
| G1 | As for GSO 1 |
| G1098 | A term describing the level of equipment in a mobilized wartime unit or formation. It increased over the period of the Second World War |
| GHQ | General Headquarters (of BEF) |
| GOC | General Officer Commanding |
| GPO | General Post Office |
| GS | General Staff |
| GSO 1/2/3 | General Staff Officer Grade 1/2/3 |
| HF | High Frequency |
| HMS | His Majestys Ship |
| HP | High Power (Wireless) |
| HQ | Headquarters (of Corps, Division etc) |
| I (tank) | Infantry tank |
| ID | Indian Division |
| IHR | Institute of Historical Research |
| IWM | Imperial War Museum |
| J | Wireless Intercept of Own Troops |
| Kcs | Radio frequency Kilocycles per second |
| LAD | Light Aid Detachment |
| LCV | Lorry Command Vehicle |
| LHCMA | Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives |
| LO | Liaison Officer |
| L of C | Lines of Communication |
| L/T | Line Telegraphy |
| MBSO | Main Beach Signal Office |
| MCO | Motor Contact Officer |
| Mhz | Frequency Megahertz (=1000 Kcs) |
| MTP | Military Training Pamphlet |
| NAM | National Army Museum |
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