ABSTRACT
The problems of Allied command had become of paramount political and military importance from the moment it had become clear that British and American troops must fight side by side in the Atlantic theatre of war.
Somewhere, at some time, the reconquest of the Continent must begin with the first British or American soldier wading ashore out of the sea; and while experience in North Africa had shown that such a venture could succeed, it had shown equally vividly, and in less critical conditions, the obstacles to success. 1
