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

Publication Info.	College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2012]
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Edition	1st ed.
Description	1 online resource (xiii, 392 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	C.A. Brannen series ; no. 12
	C.A. Brannen series ; no. 12.
Note	Originally presented as: Thesis (Ph. D.)--Kansas State University, 2008.
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.
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.
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Subject	United States. Army -- Officers -- Training of.
	United States. Army.
	United States. Army -- Non-commissioned officers -- Training of.
	United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces -- Unit cohesion.
	United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces.
	United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces -- Mobilization.
	United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces -- Operational readiness.
	United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces -- History.
	History.
	United States. Army -- Officers -- Non-commissioned officers -- Training of -- Unit cohesion -- Mobilization -- Operational readiness -- History.
	United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces -- Officers -- Non-commissioned officers -- Training of -- Unit cohesion -- Mobilization -- Operational readiness -- History.
	World War (1914-1918)
	Command of troops -- History -- 20th century.
	Command of troops.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Military morale -- United States.
	Military morale.
	United States.
	World War, 1914-1918 -- United States.
Chronological Term	1900 - 1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
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 book)
	1603446982 (electronic book)
	9781603442978
	1603442979

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

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