Dee ihe ọzọ maka paragraf a - Onye mmegide Rommel, Auchinleck (na onye bu ya ụzọ Wavell), nọ na-etinye aka na ndọrọ ndọrọ ọchịchị mgbe niile. Ọ natara ọtụtụ telegrams na ntụziaka sitere n'aka Prime Minista Winston Churchill na ngwụsị 1941 na mmalite 1942. Churchill nọgidere na-achọ mwakpo site n'aka Auchinleck. N'ịbụ onye ndakpọ olileanya nke ndị agha na Egypt na Cyrenaica, ọ nọ na-achọsi ike maka ụdị mmeri ndị Britain tupu ndị Anglo-American na-ebute ụgbọ mmiri na North Africa (Operation "Torch"
) e mere ndokwa ya na November 1942. N'ọnwa Ọgọstụ n'afọ 1942, ozugbo ndị agha nke asatọ gwụchara onwe ha mgbe Alamein nke mbụ gasịrị, Churchill gbagara Kaịro, nke a na-ekwu na ọ ga-eso Auchinleck kwurịta okwu, mana n'eziokwu o kpebiela tupu ọ hapụ Britain. Churchill chụrụ Auchinleck n'ọrụ, ihe fọrọ nke nta ka ọ bụrụ na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ jụrụ ịbụ onye Churchill na-emegbu ka ọ nye iwu nnukwu mwakpo tupu ya na ndị agha ya ejikere nke ọma. General Sir Harold Alexander nọchiri ya dịka C-in-C Middle East na GOC Eighth Army site na Lieutenant General William Gott, onye e gburu n'Ijipt tupu ya eburu iwu. Mgbe Gott nwụsịrị, a họpụtara Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery ka ọ bụrụ onye isi ndị agha nke asatọ. E nyere Auchinleck iwu nke iwu ọhụrụ e kere ọhụrụ nke Persia na Iraq nke a na-ekewapụ na Middle East Command, mana ọ nweghị ike ịnakwere nhọpụta ahụ, nke General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson weghaara.