The "command crisis" is referred to by McCarthy (among others) in the Australian official history as part of a chapter title: "Ioriabiawa: and a command in crisis". Academic and historian David Horner's first book is titled "Crisis of Command: Australian Generalship and the Japanese Threat, 1941–1943", in which he studies the generalship in these early stages of the war with Japan. Anderson notes that, while the "command crisis" specifically relates to Blamey's sacking of Rowell, the phrase can also be applied to the sackings of Allen and Potts.