Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - abokin hamayyar Rommel, Auchinleck (da magajinsa Wavell), sun kasance suna fuskantar tsangwama na siyasa. Ya karbi jerin sakonnin waya da umarni daga Firayim Minista Winston Churchill a ƙarshen 1941 da farkon 1942. Churchill koyaushe yana neman cin zarafi daga Auchinleck. Ya yi baƙin ciki tare da juyin mulki na soja a Misira da Cyrenaica, ya yi matukar damuwa ga wani irin nasara na Birtaniya kafin shirin da aka shirya na Anglo-American a Arewacin Afirka (Operation "Torch"
) da aka tsara don Nuwamba 1942. A watan Agusta 1942, nan da nan bayan Rundunar Soji ta Takwas ta gaji da kanta bayan Farko na Alamein, Churchill ya tashi zuwa Alkahira, wanda ake kira don yin shawarwari tare da Auchinleck, amma a zahiri ya yanke shawara kafin ya bar Burtaniya. Churchill ya kori Auchinleck, kusan tabbas saboda ya ki yarda da tsoratar da Churchill ya ba da umarnin babban hari kafin shi da sojojinsa su shirya yadda ya kamata. An maye gurbinsa a matsayin C-in-C Gabas ta Tsakiya da Janar Sir Harold Alexander kuma a matsayin GOC Rundunar Soja ta takwas da Laftanar Janar William Gott, wanda aka kashe a Misira kafin ya dauki umurnin. Bayan mutuwar Gott, an nada Laftanar Janar Bernard Montgomery a matsayin kwamandan runduna ta takwas. An ba Auchinleck umarnin sabon kwamandan Farisa da Iraki wanda aka raba shi daga Kwamandan Gabas ta Tsakiya, amma ya ji ba zai iya karɓar alƙawari ba, wanda Janar Sir Henry Maitland Wilson ya ɗauka.