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List of Illustrations and Tables ix Acknowledgments xi 1. Combat Leadership in the AEF: A Tale of Alvin and Charles 1 2. “To Be Instructed in the Dark Art and Mystery of Managing Men” Junior Officers in the Old Army 10 3. “We Find Ourselves in Need of a Vast Army of Officers” The Stateside Selection and Training of Officers 26 4. “By Improvised and Uncoordinated Means” Officer Selection and Training in 1918 68 5. “Ninety-Day Wonders” and “Jumped-up Sergeants” Stateside Mobilization and the Challenges of Small-Unit Leadership 99 6. “My God! This Is Kitchener’s Army All Over Again” Leader Training in the American Expeditionary Forces in France 140 7. “Gone Blooey” The AEF’s Systems for Addressing Officer Incompetence and Inefficiency 183 8. Noncoms, Doughboys, and the Sam Brownes The Relations between the Leader and the Led in the US Army 195 9. Combat Physics and the Ugly Realities of Attritional Warfare 233 10. The School of Hard Knocks 257 11. Combat Leadership and the Attritional Battlefield 287 12. Conclusions: A Tale of George and Henry 318 APPENDIX: Organization of AEF Infantry Rifle Companies and Platoons 329 Notes 333 Bibliography 365 Index 385 Contents ...