Douglas E Delaney
Biographic Data
| ID | 4466294 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas E Delaney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas E |
| FAMILY NAME | Delaney |
| SIGNATURE | DELANEY D E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Military College of Canada |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Matters of culture and military structure
Impeded by Informality
In November 1897, the Commander-in-Chief (C-in-C) North America and West Indies Station, Vice-Admiral Sir John Fisher, initiated plans to capture the French North American island group of St Pierre and Miquelon, using British garrison troops stationed at Halifax, Nova Scotia, and the Canadian Militia in a supporting role. His staff developed the scheme without consulting the Government of Canada or the War Office, and only brought the Halifax gar…
Manpower and the Armies of the British Empire in the Two World Wars
In the first and only examination of how the British Empire and Commonwealth sustained its soldiers before, during, and after both World Wars, a cast of leading military historians explores how the empire mobilized manpower to recruit workers, care for veterans, and transform factory workers and farmers into riflemen. Raising armies is more than counting people, putting them into uniform, and assigning them to formations. It demands efficient mea…
Manpower and the Armies of the British Empire in the Two World Wars
In the first and only examination of how the British Empire and Commonwealth sustained its soldiers before, during, and after both world wars, this book explores how the empire mobilized manpower to recruit workers, care for veterans, and transform factory workers and farmers into riflemen. Raising armies is more than counting people, putting them in uniform, and assigning them to formations. It demands efficient measures for recruitment, registr…
The Last Great Imperial War Effort, 1939–1945
Using the same criteria as that employed to assess imperial interoperability in Chapter 3, this chapter examines how Britain, India, and the dominions raised their armies and worked together during the Second World War. It finds that, in spite of some terrible defeats, such as Singapore and Dieppe, and some difficult personal relationships between generals, the armies of the empire worked quite well together. This owed much to decades of common t…
The Eighth Army at the Gothic Line, August–September 1944
This article takes a reverse-engineering approach to gain some insight as to how the armies of the British Commonwealth became so compatible – and, therefore, easy for commanders to use. It begins with an examination of operations conducted by the British Eighth Army in the late summer of 1944 to examine how common staff procedures and methods allowed a limited commander like Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese to assemble his multinational force…
The Imperial Army Project
How did British authorities manage to secure the commitment of large dominion and Indian armies that could plan, fight, shoot, communicate, and sustain themselves, in concert with the British Army and with each other, during the era of the two world wars? This is the primary line of inquiry for this study, which begs a couple of supporting questions. What did the British want from the dominion and Indian armies and how did they go about trying to…
Army Apostles
Between 1904 and 1914 the British army underwent significant reform to redress deficiencies that had been exposed during the South African War. It established a general staff, it reorganized the Regular Army for expeditionary operations, and it created a Territorial Force for home defence that could also provide force for overseas deployment. The War Office also took measures to prepare the dominion armies for an imperial war effort. It needed th…
Corps Commanders
Cutting, Running, or Otherwise? The US Decision to withdraw from Somalia
Although President Bill Clinton made the decision to withdraw U.S. combat troops from Somalia within three days of the disastrous Mogadishu raid that resulted in the deaths of 18 U.S. servicemen, casualties were not the only consideration. Many other factors were at play. Waning Congressional and public enthusiasm for a new “nation-building” mandate, the strategic insignificance of Somalia in the post-Cold War era, and a host of other foreign pol…
Churchill and the Mediterranean strategy
(2002). Churchill and the Mediterranean strategy: December 1941 to January 1943. Defence Studies: Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 1-26
Cutting, Running, or Otherwise? The US Decision to withdraw from Somalia
Although President Bill Clinton made the decision to withdraw U.S. combat troops from Somalia within three days of the disastrous Mogadishu raid that resulted in the deaths of 18 U.S. servicemen, casualties were not the only consideration. Many other factors were at play. Waning Congressional and public enthusiasm for a new “nation-building” mandate, the strategic insignificance of Somalia in the post-Cold War era, and a host of other foreign pol…
Churchill and the Mediterranean strategy
(2002). Churchill and the Mediterranean strategy: December 1941 to January 1943. Defence Studies: Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 1-26
Churchill and the Mediterranean strategy
(2002). Churchill and the Mediterranean strategy: December 1941 to January 1943. Defence Studies: Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 1-26
Cutting, Running, or Otherwise? The US Decision to withdraw from Somalia
Although President Bill Clinton made the decision to withdraw U.S. combat troops from Somalia within three days of the disastrous Mogadishu raid that resulted in the deaths of 18 U.S. servicemen, casualties were not the only consideration. Many other factors were at play. Waning Congressional and public enthusiasm for a new “nation-building” mandate, the strategic insignificance of Somalia in the post-Cold War era, and a host of other foreign pol…
Corps Commanders
Army Apostles
Between 1904 and 1914 the British army underwent significant reform to redress deficiencies that had been exposed during the South African War. It established a general staff, it reorganized the Regular Army for expeditionary operations, and it created a Territorial Force for home defence that could also provide force for overseas deployment. The War Office also took measures to prepare the dominion armies for an imperial war effort. It needed th…
The Last Great Imperial War Effort, 1939–1945
Using the same criteria as that employed to assess imperial interoperability in Chapter 3, this chapter examines how Britain, India, and the dominions raised their armies and worked together during the Second World War. It finds that, in spite of some terrible defeats, such as Singapore and Dieppe, and some difficult personal relationships between generals, the armies of the empire worked quite well together. This owed much to decades of common t…
The Eighth Army at the Gothic Line, August–September 1944
This article takes a reverse-engineering approach to gain some insight as to how the armies of the British Commonwealth became so compatible – and, therefore, easy for commanders to use. It begins with an examination of operations conducted by the British Eighth Army in the late summer of 1944 to examine how common staff procedures and methods allowed a limited commander like Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese to assemble his multinational force…
The Imperial Army Project
How did British authorities manage to secure the commitment of large dominion and Indian armies that could plan, fight, shoot, communicate, and sustain themselves, in concert with the British Army and with each other, during the era of the two world wars? This is the primary line of inquiry for this study, which begs a couple of supporting questions. What did the British want from the dominion and Indian armies and how did they go about trying to…
Manpower and the Armies of the British Empire in the Two World Wars
In the first and only examination of how the British Empire and Commonwealth sustained its soldiers before, during, and after both World Wars, a cast of leading military historians explores how the empire mobilized manpower to recruit workers, care for veterans, and transform factory workers and farmers into riflemen. Raising armies is more than counting people, putting them into uniform, and assigning them to formations. It demands efficient mea…
Manpower and the Armies of the British Empire in the Two World Wars
In the first and only examination of how the British Empire and Commonwealth sustained its soldiers before, during, and after both world wars, this book explores how the empire mobilized manpower to recruit workers, care for veterans, and transform factory workers and farmers into riflemen. Raising armies is more than counting people, putting them in uniform, and assigning them to formations. It demands efficient measures for recruitment, registr…
Impeded by Informality
In November 1897, the Commander-in-Chief (C-in-C) North America and West Indies Station, Vice-Admiral Sir John Fisher, initiated plans to capture the French North American island group of St Pierre and Miquelon, using British garrison troops stationed at Halifax, Nova Scotia, and the Canadian Militia in a supporting role. His staff developed the scheme without consulting the Government of Canada or the War Office, and only brought the Halifax gar…
Matters of culture and military structure
Political science (11 works) · History (10 works) · Economic history (7 works) · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact (7 works) · Ancient history (6 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Australian History and Society (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Empire (4 works)