After Dunkirk, this new WW2 Command mounted offensive amphibious operations against the enemy (Commando raids) and planned, trained, equipped and undertook large scale joint forces landings onto heavily defended unimproved beaches.
the Chiefs of Staff were prepared to back Mountbatten to the fullest extent. He had, after all, the full backing of the Prime Minister and everyone knew it; but they also
Roger Keyes Churchill's 1st appointment to the post of Director Combined Operations, which ended in acrimony just 15 months later, in Oct 1941, due to intolerable tensions between Keyes and the Chiefs of Staff of the three services. Keyes was a personal friend of Churchill's and it was with...