• The school of hard knocks : combat leadership in the American Expeditionary Forces
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-電子資源 : 單行本
    副題名: combat leadership in the American Expeditionary Forces
    作者: FaulknerRichard Shawn,
    其他團體作者: Project Muse
    出版地: College Station
    出版者: Texas A&M University Press;
    出版年: 2012
    版本: 1st ed.
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource (416 p.).
    集叢名: C. A. Brannen series
    標題: World War, 1914-1918 - United States -
    標題: Military morale - United States -
    標題: Command of troops - History - 20th century -
    電子資源: http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781603446983/
    附註: Originally presented as: Thesis (Ph.D.)--Kansas State University, 2008
    ISBN: 9781603446983electronic bk.
    ISBN: 1603446982electronic bk.
    ISBN: 9781603442978hbk.
    ISBN: 1603442979hbk.
    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
評論
Export
取書館別
 
 
變更密碼
登入