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Informationen zum Autor John F Votaw is the Executive Director, Cantigny First Division Foundation, Wheaton, Illinois. Lieutenant Colonel (US Army, Retired) Votaw, a graduate of the US Military Academy (1961), commanded US Army cavalry and armored units through the battalion level and served in Vietnam in 1966-67. He completed graduate studies in history at the University of California, Davis (MA, 1969) and Temple University (PhD, 1991). Klappentext Upon the entry of the United States into World War I, the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) were created by the War Department on short notice from existing units, filled up with men from the training camps and deployed with only their personal weapons and equipment. The US Army was not prepared for combat in France, and the remarkable achievement of the AEF's commanding officer, John J Pershing, was the creation of an American field army, built and nurtured from the bottom up. This book details the organizational structure, training and doctrine of the AEF and illustrates how it came to make a significant contribution to Allied victory in World War I. Zusammenfassung Upon the entry of the United States into World War I! the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) were created by the War Department on short notice from existing units! filled up with men from the training camps and deployed with only their personal weapons and equipment. The US Army was not prepared for combat in France! and the remarkable achievement of the AEF's commanding officer! John J Pershing! was the creation of an American field army! built and nurtured from the bottom up. This book details the organizational structure! training and doctrine of the AEF and illustrates how it came to make a significant contribution to Allied victory in World War I. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Combat mission Doctrine and training Unit organization Tactics Command, control, communications and intelligence (C3I) Weapons and equipment Lessons learned Chronology Bibliography Glossary Index ...
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John F Votaw is the Executive Director, Cantigny First Division Foundation, Wheaton, Illinois. Lieutenant Colonel (US Army, Retired) Votaw, a graduate of the US Military Academy (1961), commanded US Army cavalry and armored units through the battalion level and served in Vietnam in 1966–67. He completed graduate studies in history at the University of California, Davis (MA, 1969) and Temple University (PhD, 1991).Duncan Anderson MBE was head of war studies at Sandhurst Academy. He served as a founding academic mentor at the Iraqi Military Academy and later the Afghan National Army Officers’ Academy and his publications include The Battle for Manila (with R. M. Connaughton and John Pimlott, 1995), The World at War, 1939-45 (1998), The Fall of the Reich (2000), The Falklands War 1982 (2002), Glass Warriors: The Camera at War (2005), The Eastern Front (2018).
