Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko te hoa whawhai a Rommel, ko Auchinleck (me tana kaitohutohu o mua, ko Wavell), i whakawhiwhia ki te aukati torangapu tonu. I whiwhi ia i te raupapa o nga waea me nga tohutohu a te Pirimia Winston Churchill i te mutunga o te tau 1941 me te timatanga o te tau 1942. I rapu tonu a Churchill i tētahi whakaeke mai i a Auchinleck. I te pouri ki nga whakahekenga hoia i Ihipa me Cyrenaica, i tino hiahia ia mo tetahi momo wikitoria o Ingarangi i mua i nga whakaekenga a Ingarangi-Amerika i whakahaeretia i Awherika ki te Raki (
Operation "Torch") i whakaritea mō Whiringa-ā-rangi 1942. I te marama o Akuhata 1942, i muri tonu i te mutunga o te ope taua tuawaru i muri i te Alamein Tuatahi, ka rere a Churchill ki Kairo, hei korero ki a Auchinleck, engari i whakatau ia i mua i tana wehenga atu i Ingarangi. I peia a Auchinleck e Churchill, ko te mea pea na te mea kaore ia i whakaae ki te whakawakia e Churchill ki te whakahau i tetahi whakaekenga nui i mua i te mea kua rite rawa ia me ana hoia. I whakakapihia ia hei C-in-C Middle East e General Sir Harold Alexander me te GOC Eighth Army na Lieutenant-General William Gott, i mate i Ihipa i mua i te tango i te whakahau. I te matenga o Gott, ka tohua a Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery hei rangatira mo te Eighth Army. I whakawhiwhia a Auchinleck ki te whakahau i te Perehia me te Iraq Command i hangaia hou i wehe mai i te Middle East Command, engari kaore i taea te whakaae ki te whakatuunga, i tangohia e te Tiamana Sir Henry Maitland Wilson.