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A carregar... To the Limit of Endurance: A Battalion of Marines in the Great War (C. A. Brannen Series)por Peter F. Owen
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. What one has here is a really good microhistory of the 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines (the unit in which the author started his active career in the USMC), with the goal of teasing out what insights what one of the better battalions of the AEF might tell one about American military performance in World War I. The short answer is that quality manpower can only take up so much slack in the face of bad doctrine & organization, and that the evolution of doctrine & organization in the AEF barely kept up with the erosion of its human resources. Going forward, the author suggests that in the next high-intensity war U.S. ground forces may have to implement some of the expedients the Marines of the 4th Brigade had to adopt, such as holding back cadres at the battalion level to maintain unit cohesion, and liberal use of battlefield commissions to keep up at least a skeleton command system; never mind the issues of filling up the rank & file in the absence of conscription and creating an organization to implement a crash draft. ( ) sem crÃticas | adicionar uma crÃtica
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Scholars and historians offer several theories for the crippling losses suffered by the American Expeditionary Forces on the battlefields of World War I: inexperience, poor leadership, hasty expansion of duties, and others. But until now, most of these studies have focused at the division level or higher. Now, with To the Limit of Endurance, Peter F. Owen offers a tautly worded, historically rigorous, and intensely human survey of the agonizing burden shouldered by the Second Battalion of the Sixth Regiment of U.S. Marines from its formation in Quantico, Virginia, in 1917 until the cessation of hostilities in November of the following year. In places like Belleau Wood and Soissons, these young men, led by dedicated officers, died in staggering numbersâ??primarily because of the outmoded tactics they had learned. Owen shows how the battalion regrouped after these campaigns, however, and embarked on a period of intense retraining. By the time of the closing weeks of the war, the adjustments they had made allowed them to mold themselves into a coldly efficient military machine. Drawing on a treasure trove of surviving first-hand accounts, Owen expertly combines these individual observations with military records and archival sources to create a mosaic that provides not only a case study of how one organization grappled with transformation but also a tightly focused, ground-level view of the livesâ??and deathsâ??of these courageous American military men. The grueling, ultimately triumphant odyssey of the 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines will appeal to military historians, professional soldiers, and interested general Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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