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A standing military maxim since Alex ander the Great (356-323 B.C.) has been "Destroy the enemy's leadership." In his principal campaigns Alexander's strategy was based on capturing the enemy's leader. General Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck probably had both man and maxim in mind when he opened the Western Desert campaign against the Axis in November. In the most hair-raising story of World War II it was revealed last week that, be fore the attack started, General Auchinleck sent a force of Britain's shock Commandos 200 miles behind the Axis lines....
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