TY  - BOOK
AU  - Faulkner,Richard Shawn
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - The school of hard knocks: combat leadership in the American Expeditionary Forces 
T2  - C. A. Brannen series
SN  - 9781603446983
AV  - D570.2 .F38 2012
U1  - 940.4/1273 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - College Station
PB  - Texas A&M University Press
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - American Expeditionary Forces
KW  - History
KW  - Operational readiness
KW  - Mobilization
KW  - Unit cohesion
KW  - Non-commissioned officers
KW  - Training of
KW  - Officers
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
KW  - Military morale
KW  - Command of troops
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Originally presented as: Thesis (Ph.D.)--Kansas State University, 2008; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781603446983/
ER  -