The school of hard knocks combat leadership in the American Expeditionary Forces /
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| Định dạng: | Điện tử eBook |
| Ngôn ngữ: | Tiếng Anh |
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College Station, Tex. :
Texas A&M University Press,
2012.
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| Phiên bản: | 1st ed. |
| Loạt: | C.A. Brannen series ;
no. 12. |
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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- Combat leadership in the AEF: a tale of Alvin and Charles
- "To be instructed in the dark art and mystery of managing men"
- Small-unit leadership in the Old Army
- "We find ourselves in need of a vast army of officers"
- The stateside selection and training of officers
- "By improvised and uncoordinated means"
- Officer selection and training in 1918
- "Ninety-day wonders" and "jumped-up sergeants"
- Stateside mobilization and the challenges of small-unit leadership
- "My God! This is Kitchener's army all over again"
- Leader training in the American Expeditionary Forces in France
- "Gone blooey"
- The AEF's systems for addressing officer incompetence and inefficiency
- Noncoms, doughboys and the Sam Brownes
- The relations between the leader and the led in the US Army
- Combat physics and the ugly realities of attritional warfare
- The school of hard knocks
- Combat leadership and the attritional battlefield
- Conclusions: A tale of George and Henry
- Appendix: Organization of AEF infantry rifle companies and platoons.