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Combined Operations.
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Your second role will be to take over command of the Inter-3ervices Training and Development Centres and to act as our adviser on the organisation required for opposed landings.
10. Three brigade groups are being detailed for special training in combined operations as soon as they can be equipped. Of these one may be made available at your request for purely raiding operations, in which case it would, of course, be placed under your command. You will, however, be responsible for supervising the technical training of all troops earmarked for combined operations.
In addition we wish you to press on with the development and production of special landing craft and equipment and to advise us, when the occasion arises, as to its allotment.
11. If it is decided to undertake a combined operation, detailed plans will be worked out by the Service Departments (through the medium of the Inter-Service Planning Staff) and the commander designate. Both will require your technical advice and help.
Relations with other Staffs.
12. We are directing the Inter-Service Planning Staff to consult you whenever they receive a combined operational project for investigation.
You should maintain close liaison with this staff and also with the operational and intelligence staffs of the Service Departments and with the Inter-Service Project Board. At the same time, you will have direct access to the Chiefs of Staff through the Cabinet Secretariat who will advise you of any combined operations which are envisaged.
Headquarters and Staff.
13. Your headquarters will be at the Admiralty. You should let us know as soon as possible what staff you need.
14. An Officer of the Royal Air Force will be attached to your staff who will also be responsible, under the Air Ministry, for the development, as far as the Air Force are concerned, of parachute troops and other air require- ments for raiding and irregular operations.
Secrecy.
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You will appreciate the paramount need for secrecy.
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