Sir Francis Wheler's Caribbean and North American expedition, 1693: A case study in combined operational command during the reign of William III
McLay, Keith A. J.
McLay, Keith A. J.
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This article uses the evidence of an amphibious campaign undertaken first in the Caribbean and then off the north-eastern American seaboard during the Nine Years War, 1688—97 to rejuvenate an understanding of combined operational command, which harks back to the views of the principal eighteenth-century author on amphibious warfare, Thomas More Molyneaux. In this analysis, combined operational command is shown to be a negotiated operational construct between the service commanders and the government, as a result of which disagreements related to the command structure and the subsequent dilution of authority through an executive council of war significantly impacted upon operational success.
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War in History, 2007, 14(4), pp. 383-407
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SAGE Publications
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War in History
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10.1177/0968344507081554
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