Title The school of hard knocks : combat leadership in the American Expeditionary Forces / Richard S. Faulkner.

Publication Info.	College Station : Texas A and M University Press, [2012]
	©2012

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Edition	1st ed.
Description	1 online resource (xiii, 392 pages) : illustrations.
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Series	C.A. Brannen series ; no. 12
	C.A. Brannen series ; no. 12.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	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.
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Summary	This important new history of the development of a leadership corps of officers during World War I opens with a gripping narrative of the battlefield heroism of Cpl. Alvin York, juxtaposed with the death of Pvt. Charles Clement less than two kilometers away. Clement had been a captain and an example of what a good officer should be in the years just before the beginning of the war. His subsequent failure as an officer and his redemption through death in combat embody the question that lies at the heart of this comprehensive and exhaustively researched book: What were the faults o.
Subject	United States. Army -- Officers -- Training of.
	United States. Army -- Non-commissioned officers -- Training of.
	United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces -- Unit cohesion.
	United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces -- Mobilization.
	United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces -- Operational readiness.
	United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces -- History.
	United States. Army. (OCoLC)fst00533532
	United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces. (OCoLC)fst00589449
	World War (1914-1918) (OCoLC)fst01180746
	Command of troops -- History -- 20th century.
	Military morale -- United States.
	World War, 1914-1918 -- United States.
	HISTORY -- Military -- World War I.
	Command of troops. (OCoLC)fst00869220
	Military morale. (OCoLC)fst01764766
	Operational readiness (Military science) (OCoLC)fst01046384
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	1900 - 1999
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Title	Combat leadership in the American Expeditionary Forces
Other Form:	Print version: Faulkner, Richard Shawn. School of hard knocks. 1st ed. College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2012 9781603442978 (DLC) 2011025679 (OCoLC)732627444
ISBN	9781603446983 (electronic bk.)
	1603446982 (electronic bk.)

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