Pitfalls of Command

Pitfalls of Command GEORGE FIELDING ELIOT

HE AUTHOR of this book served in the Royal Air Force during World War II successively as Air Officer Commanding in Chief, Mid- dle East; Air Officer Commanding in Chief, Mediterranean; and as Deputy Supreme Commander under General Eisenhower, in over-all charge of all air operations for the invasion of France and the subsequent campaign in Western Europe. His record of this experience is one of the most percep- tive and valuable treatises on the processes and pitfalls of high com- mand in war that this reviewer has ever seen. This title, With Prejudice, means exactly what it says. “Frankly, I am completely prejudiced,” he admits, “snd I accept as a guide and as a warning, Goethe’s saying: ‘I can promise to be upright but not to be unprejudiced.’” It is not mere stub- born blind prejudice to which he ad- mits, but the prejudice in favor of his own branch of the military profession which he has acquired by the experi-

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George Fielding Eliot

Pitfalls of Command GEORGE FIELDING ELIOT

HE AUTHOR of this book served in the Royal Air Force during World War II successively as Air Officer Commanding in Chief, Mid- dle East; Air Officer Commanding in Chief, Mediterranean; and as Deputy Supreme Commander under General Eisenhower, in over-all charge of all air operations for the invasion of France and the subsequent campaign in Western Europe. His record of this experience is one of the most percep- tive and valuable treatises on the processes and pitfalls of high com- mand in war that this reviewer has ever seen. This title, With Prejudice, means exactly what it says. “Frankly, I am completely prejudiced,” he admits, “snd I accept as a guide and as a warning, Goethe’s saying: ‘I can promise to be upright but not to be unprejudiced.’” It is not mere stub- born blind prejudice to which he ad- mits, but the prejudice in favor of his own branch of the military profession which he has acquired by the experi-