Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Muvengi waRommel, Auchinleck (nomutangiri wake Wavell), akaiswa mungozi yokupindira kwezvematongerwe enyika nguva dzose. Akagamuchira nhevedzano yeteregiramu dzinotambudza nemirayiridzo kubva kumutungamiriri wehurumende Winston Churchill mukupera kwa1941 uye kutanga kwa1942. Churchill aigara achitsvaka kurwisa kwaibva kuna Auchinleck. Aodzwa mwoyo nekukundwa kwemauto muEgypt neCyrenaica, akanga achida zvikuru kuti Britain ikunde imwe hondo isati yarongwa neEngland neAmerica muNorth Africa (
Operation "Torch") yakarongwa nokuda kwaNovember 1942. Muna August 1942, pakarepo pashure pokunge Mauto Echisere apera simba rose pashure peFirst Alamein, Churchill akaenda kuCairo, achinzi kunobvunzana naAuchinleck, asi chaizvoizvo akanga aita chisarudzo chake asati abva kuBritain. Auchinleck akadzingwa basa naChurchill, zvimwe nemhaka yokuti akaramba kutyisidzirwa naChurchill kuti arayire kurwisa kukuru iye nemasoja ake vasati vagadzirira zvakanaka. Akatsiviwa saC-in-C Middle East naGeneral Sir Harold Alexander uye saGOC Eighth Army naLieutenant-General William Gott, akaurayiwa muEjipitori asati atora mutungamiri. Parufu rwaGott, Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery akagadzwa kuva mutungamiriri weEighth Army. Auchinleck akapihwa kutungamira kwePersia neIraq Command iyo yakanga ichangobva kugadzirwa iyo yakanga ichiparadzaniswa kubva kuMiddle East Command, asi akanzwa asingakwanisi kugamuchira kugadzwa, iyo yakazotorwa naGeneral Sir Henry Maitland Wilson.