The school of hard knocks = combat l...
Faulkner, Richard Shawn.

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  • The school of hard knocks = combat leadership in the American Expeditionary Forces /
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    正題名/作者: The school of hard knocks/ Richard S. Faulkner.
    其他題名: combat leadership in the American Expeditionary Forces /
    作者: Faulkner, Richard Shawn.
    出版者: College Station :Texas A&M University Press, : 2012.,
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource (416 p.).
    附註: Originally presented as: Thesis (Ph.D.)--Kansas State University, 2008.
    內容註: 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 -- "Byimprovised 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 systemsfor 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.
    標題: World War, 1914-1918 - United States. -
    電子資源: http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781603446983/Full text available:
    ISBN: 9781603446983 (electronic bk.)
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