Pershing's Lieutenants: American Military Leadership in World War I

by Robert A. Doughty (Foreword by), William H. Van Husen (Contribution by), Holt D. Theis (Contribution by), Jerry D. Morelock (Contribution by), Patrick Gregory (Contribution by)

Overview

Pershing's Lieutenants details the history of the key leaders working for and with the American Expeditionary Forces Commander-in-Chief General John J. Pershing, several of whom went on to become important figures in World War II.

World War I had a profound impact on the United States of America, which was forced to 'grow' an army almost overnight. The day the United States declared war on Germany, the US Army was only the 17th largest in the world, ranking behind Portugal – the Regular Army had only 128,00 troops, backed up by the National Guard with some 182,000 troops. By the end of the war it had grown to 3,700,000, with slightly more than half that number in Europe.

Until the United States did so, no country in all history had tried to deploy a 2-million-man force 3,000 miles from its own borders, a force led by American Expeditionary Forces Commander-in-Chief General John J. Pershing. This was America's first truly modern war and rising from its ranks was a new generation of leaders who would control the fate of the United States armed forces during the interwar period and into World War II.

This book reveals the history of the key leaders working for and with John J. Pershing during this tumultuous period, including George S. Patton (tank commander and future commander of the US Third Army during World War II); Douglas MacArthur (42nd Division commander and future General of the Army) and Harry S. Truman (artillery battery commander and future President of the United States).

Edited by Major General David T. Zabecki (US Army, Retired) and Colonel Douglas V. Mastriano (US Army, Retired), this fascinating title comprises chapters on individual leaders from subject experts across the US, including faculty members of the US Army War College.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472838643
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	11/26/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	368
Sales rank:	520,939
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

David T. Zabecki (Maj. Gen. Ret) is the author, editor, or translator of seventeen military history books. His encyclopaedia, Germany at War: 400 Years of Military History, won a Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award in 2016. He is editor emeritus of Vietnam Magazine. He holds a PhD in Military History from Britain's Royal Military College of Science, Cranfield University, where his supervisor was the late Professor Richard Holmes. In 2012 he was the Shifrin Distinguished Professor of Military History at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis. He is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the University of Birmingham's War Studies Programme.

Douglas V. Mastriano (Colonel, Retired) is the author of two books, and senior editor and primary contributor to two published strategic studies. His book, Alvin York: A New Biography of the Hero of the Argonne won four awards; William E. Colby Award, Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award, U.S. Army War College Madigan Award and the Carder Family Book Prize. He was a Professor of the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Mastriano has a PhD in Military History from the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada.
Brigadier General Robert Doughty retired in July 2005 after forty years of service in the U.S. Army. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1965 and received his Ph.D. from Kansas University in 1979. His awards and decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal, Silver Star, and Combat Infantry Badge. He served as the Head of the Department of History at the U.S. Military Academy from 1985 until 2005. He is the author of numerous articles and books and currently is working on a paper about Franco-American relations during World War I.
William H. Van Husen, U.S. Air Force (Retired) received his BS, magna cum laude, from the University of Maryland and his MS in international relations from Troy University. From 1989 to 1994 he taught history and American Government for Central Texas College and the University of Maryland in the European region. He was assistant editor and contributor to ABC-CLIO's Encyclopedia of World War II: 1939-1945 and Germany at War: 400 Years of Military History, and contributor to the Encyclopedia of the Korean War; Editor and contributor to Garland Publishing's World War II in Europe: An Encyclopedia; and contributor to Naval Institute Press' Chief of Staff: The Principal Officers behind History's Great Commanders. He served in Germany for a total of 38 years both in uniform and as a U.S. Air Force civilian. He is retired and lives in New Hampshire.
JERRY D. MORELOCK, PhD, Colonel, U.S. Army, ret., is a 1969 West Point graduate who served 36 years in uniform in command and staff positions, including Director of the Combat Studies Institute, the history department of the U.S. Army Command&General Staff College. He has authored several books and published over 300 articles in history journals and magazines. His latest book is Generals of the Bulge: Leadership in the U.S. Army's Greatest Battle (Stackpole, 2015).
Patrick began his career with the BBC in London, working as a news editor and program maker for nearly 30 years: latterly as Managing Editor of the BBC's Political Programs department, where he also made history and political documentaries. He has devoted most of his energies in recent years to the study of the US contribution in WW1. His work includes An American on the Western Front: The First World War Letters of Arthur Clifford Kimber 1917-18 (with Elizabeth Nurser); as a contributor to 1914-1918-online Encyclopedia of the First World War; and the writing of regular feature articles for history and news websites in the US&UK, aimed at the public understanding of the US role in the war.
Born and reared in Ohio, Mark Jackson attended Ohio University on a 4-year Army ROTC scholarship. Jackson served with the 2nd ACR in Germany and the 82nd Airborne Division at Ft. Bragg, NC.
After the military, Jackson served in several professional positions with public sector corporations. Additionally, he is a leadership trainer and consultant primarily for the U.S. Government and Department of Defense. Jackson's 100+ training seminars unite historical case studies with textbook leadership methods and strategies.
In 2009, Jackson returned to the U.S. Army and served a tour of duty as a Combat Advisor Team Chief in Afghanistan. He earned the Bronze Star and the Combat Action Badge.
Jackson holds a Master's Degree of Arts in Leadership Development from Gonzaga University and is a member of Mensa. He had articles printed in The Washington Post, Reader's Digest and numerous other media outlets, as well as being featured on ABC and Fox News. He is the author of one book, Touched by Fire.
Dr James S. Corum is an internationally recognized expert on military airpower and counter-insurgency. Recently retired from two decades of teaching at leading Western defense colleges, he has also served as a strategic planner and is a retired US Army lieutenant colonel with intelligence background. An award-winning author of 15 books and more than 70 major journal articles and book chapters, he is now an independent historian and consultant, and lives in Alabama.
Tim White is a co-founder, owner and Managing Director of Johnson&White Wealth Management, LLC. As a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ practitioner, he is responsible for advising investment clients for Johnson&White. White's education includes a Master of Science in Personal Financial Planning from the College for Financial Planning and a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Penn State. Prior to founding Johnson&White with his partner, Chris Johnson, he worked for over two decades for Wells Fargo and its predecessors. Before beginning his career in financial services, he served in the U.S. Army as a Cavalry Officer.
White was commissioned into the Regular Army in 1985 after serving as the Cadet Brigade Commander in Army ROTC at Penn State in the academic year 1984-1985. He is a recipient of the George C. Marshall Award. His military experience includes a tour with the Second Armored Cavalry Regiment in Bamberg, FRG and commands of a tank company and headquarters company of the 157th SIB in Pennsylvania. Today, he serves on the Board for the Second Cavalry Association.
White's military experience spawned many years of leadership development for organizations as diverse as the US Mint, Northrop Grumman, L3 Communications, the GSA, and the US Department of Agriculture. His use of Civil War battlefields as leadership laboratories for these and other organizations is built upon his use of the staff ride and his knowledge of military history.
A veteran of 30 years in the financial services industry, White has extensive experience in addressing the many and varied needs of clients. He is passionate about providing practical, common sense solutions to the financial issues that confront clients. Simplicity and clarity are critical principals for White; process and discipline fundamental behaviors.
White's family includes my wife, Susan, three daughters, two sons-in-law, and three grandchildren. Home is their farm in Stewartstown, PA.
Dr. G. K. Cunningham is Professor of Strategic Landpower at the U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, USA. He directs the Strategic Landpower of Area of Concentration Program and is a key effectuator for quality assurance and integration of academic and leader development programs dealing with 21st century theater strategy and campaigning. In addition to organizational leadership roles, he also teaches elective courses on military history and campaign planning and analysis.
Colonel Ken Shaw currently serves with the Transitional Interim Management Organization with the Defense Health Agency, as the Chief of the Fort Belvoir Community Hospital Emergency Response Team, and as an Optometrist at Fort Belvoir Community Hospital. He recently served as the Deputy Commander for Quality and Safety and Chief of the CBRNE Response Team at Womack Army Medical Center, Ft. Bragg, N.C. Immediately prior to that, he served as the Chief of Quality Services Division and Chief of the Wellness and Readiness Division at Womack and was in charge of preparing Womack to receive Ebola patients in 2014-2015. His efforts caused Womack Army Medical Center to lead the Army Medical Department in preparations and informed the plans for the Northern Regional Medical Command and the U.S. Army Medical Command.
He has 17 years of experience in emergency medical response planning, and has developed and run teams from a small clinic all the way up to several Medical Centers. He has been a speaker at a number of national and international Emergency Response Conferences as well as publishing several articles on the subject.
Colonel Ken Shaw grew up in South Carolina and graduated from The Citadel in 1988 before attending the Pennsylvania College of Optometry on an Army Scholarship. He holds a Master's Degree in Homeland Security with an emphasis on Emergency Management from American Military University.
His first duty station was with the 25th Infantry Division (Light) at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii for four years from 1992-1996. His next duty station was with the 3d Infantry Division (Mech) and the hospital at Ft. Stewart, GA from 1996-1999. He was then stationed at Rader U.S. Army Health Clinic on Ft. Myer as the Chief of the Specialty Clinic from 1999-2003. During the September 11 terrorist attack on the Pentagon he was responsible for running the Rader Clinic Operations Center and set up the Triage and Treatment sections as well as arranging treatment and evacuation of several severely injured patients from Ft. Myer and Henderson Hall. Afterwards he served as one of the Northern Regional Medical Command's designated Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Casualty Care Officers.
He was then assigned to Heidelberg U.S. Army Hospital in Germany from 2003-2006. He simultaneously served as the Chief of Optometry and as the WMD Consultant for the European Regional Medical Command, the HMEDDAC Weapons of Mass Destruction Medical Director, the HMEDDAC Emergency Response Team Leader, and as a Medical Officer for the U.S. Army Europe Emergency Response Team. He then moved to Georgia for a tour at Eisenhower Army Medical Center from 2006-2010 where he served as the Optometry chief as well as the Southeast Regional Medical Command WMD Consultant, the Southeast Regional Medical Command Optometry Consultant, the Physician Representative to the DDEAMC Contingency and Emergency Preparedness Committee, and as the Chief of the DDEAMC Emergency Response Team. His next tour was at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as a Director of Research in the Warfigher Refractive Surgery Center before moving to DeWitt Army Community Hospital to assist with opening the new, state-of-the-art Ft. Belvoir Community Hospital where he served as the Deputy Commander for Clinical Support Services and Chief of the Emergency Response Team. The FBCH Emergency Response Team provided medical support for a number of National Special Security Events (NSSEs) such as the 2012 Presidential Inauguration and several State of the Union Addresses, culminating in an invitation to become the tactical medical support for the FBI's elite Hostage Rescue Team (HRT).
He and his wife, Colonel Janie Shaw, live with their two children, Ashley and Jacob in Alexandria, VA.
Associate Professor, Department of Airpower, Air Command and Staff College
Ph.D, Duke University (Military history, 19th and 20th c. American History, Germany 1871-1945)
Research interests: history and theory of airpower, First World War, military culture and military professionalism
Dr. Mark E. Grotelueschen teaches strategic studies in the Department of Military and Strategic Studies at the USAF Academy. A 27 year veteran of the Air Force, he holds degrees from the United States Air Force Academy, the University of Calgary, and Texas A&M University. He is the author of The AEF Way of War: The American Army and Combat in World War I (Cambridge), and, most recently, Into the Fight: April-June 1918 for the US Army Center of Military History's Campaigns of World War I series.

MARK E. GROTELUESCHEN is Assistant Professor of History at the United States Air Force Academy./e

Carl Schuster is a retired US Navy Captain who served on a variety of U.S. and Allied warships, submarines and headquarters' staffs during his 26 year career. He currently lectures at Hawaii Pacific University in Honolulu, Hawaii. Is a military analyst for CNN and writes on current events and military history.
Major General David T. Zabecki, PhD, U.S. Army (Retired) is an honorary senior research fellow in war studies at Britain's University of Birmingham.

Table of Contents

Dedication
Contributors
Foreword
Maps
List of Illustrations
Introduction: The War to End All War

Part One – The Future Chiefs of Staff of the U.S. Army
1: Major General John L. Hines
2: Major General Charles P. Summerall
3: Brigadier General Douglas MacArthur
4: Brigadier General Malin Craig
5: Colonel George C. Marshall

Part Two – The Future Commandants of the U.S. Marine Corps
6: Major General John A. Lejeune
7: Brigadier General Wendell C. Neville

Part Three – The Senior Staff Officers
8: Major General James G. Harbord
9: Brigadier General Fox Conner
10: Brigadier General Hugh A. Drum
11: Brigadier General Charles G. Dawes

Part Four – The Army Commanders
12: Lieutenant General Hunter Liggett
13: Lieutenant General Robert L. Bullard
14: Major General Joseph T. Dickman

Part Five – The Corps and Division Commanders
15: Major General George H. Cameron
16: Major General Clarence R. Edwards
17: Major General Robert Alexander

Part Six – The Specialist Officers
18: Brigadier General William “Billy” Mitchell
19: Colonel George S. Patton, Jr.

Part Seven – The Regimental Officers
20: Colonel William J. Donovan
21: Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.
22: Major Harry S. Truman

Appendix: U.S. Army Professional Military Education in the Early 20th Century
Endnotes
Select Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

Even after more than a century of analysis, it is surprising how many gaps there are in our understanding of US land forces on the Western Front, so this sparkling collection of essays is especially welcome. A distinguished team of contributors deliver scholarship and controversy in a highly accessible form. Pershing's Lieutenants goes straight onto any list of key books on American military history in the Great War.” —Professor Gary Sheffield, co-director of the First World War Research Group

“The essays in this excellent collection, written by some of the brightest stars in the military history galaxy, shed a new and exciting light on one of the least understood armies of the First World War. It is not just historians who will find them useful, though: today's soldiers, sailors and airmen, too, will learn much from the insights on leadership they offer.” —Dr Jonathan Boff, author of Haig's Enemy: Crown Prince Rupprecht and Germany's War on the Western Front

“This is a superb collection of essays by nineteen eminent scholars covering twenty-two American “lieutenants” ranging from Lieutenant General Hunter Liggett to Major Harry S. Truman. From honing technical skills to alliance building, the “lieutenants” struggled to master a deadly battlefield. The writing is crisp, the analysis critical, and the tone compassionate. The book is a welcome complement to Douglas Southall Freeman's Lee's Lieutenants, Steven Woodworth's Grant's Lieutenants, and Russell Weigley's Eisenhower's Lieutenants.” —Holger H. Herwig, Professor Emeritus, University of Calgary

“Behind every great captain of war stand typically over-looked but essential lieutenants, who enable the planning and conduct of operations made famous by their superior commander. This new volume, expertly edited by David T. Zabecki and Douglas V. Mastriano, brings Pershing's illustrious and largely-forgotten subordinates out of the shadows into the limelight they deserve.” —Major General Mungo Melvin CB OBE, British Army (Retired)

“April 1917 saw the U.S. military largely unprepared for participation in World War I. In this important study edited by Douglas V. Mastriano and David T. Zabecki, and bound to be required reading for military officers, 19 military historians trace the service of, and lessons learned, in that conflict by 22 key figures from future Army chiefs of staff and Marine Corps commandants, to specialists and regimental commanders.” —Professor Spencer C. Tucker, John Biggs Chair of Military History (Ret.), Virginia Military Institute

“A major contribution to the history of World War I.” —Williamson Murray, Professor Emeritus, Ohio State University

“Pershing's Lieutenants is a valuable re-source for those interested in the U.S. contribution to victory in World War I.” —Military History

“Pershing's Lieutenants is an ideal first book for anyone interested in the US contribution to WWI and the officer corps of the American Expeditionary Force.” —Jörg Muth, Author of 'Command Culture'

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