Military Review English Edition November December 2016

STRATEGIC LEADERS The invasion planning staff created in 1943 under the Chief of Staff Supreme Allied Command meets (clockwise from top left): Lt. Gen. Omar Bradley, commander, 1st U.S. Army; Adm. Sir Bertram Ramsay, naval commander-in-chief; Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, air commander-in-chief; Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, chief of staff; Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery, commander, 21st Army Group (all Allied land forces); Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme commander; and Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, deputy supreme commander. (Photo courtesy of Imperial War Museum, London) The Area under the Curve Developing Strategic Leaders to Win in a Complex World Col. Valery C. Keaveny Jr., U.S. Army Col. Michael R. Fenzel, U.S. Army MILITARY REVIEW November-December 2016 81

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