Pershing and the Disarmament of the Moros

Smythe, Donald J.

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“…The prewar general staff, which was responsible for war planning and interdepartmental coordination numbered only forty-one officers, while the German Army used over 600 specially trained officers for the same functions. 30 The result of the poorly organized and ill-managed War Department staff was inefficiency throughout the war effort. For example, it took an average of six days for a telegraph cable from Pershing to reach the desk of the chief of staff and another three to four days for the response to reach France.…”

Section: Drafted Into Squalor: the Training Camp Crisis Of 1917-18mentioning

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Disease and Dissent: Progressives, Congress, and the WWI Army Training Camp Crisis

Setzekorn

2022

J. gilded age prog. era

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In January 1918, Congress began public hearings on the American war effort in World War I due to widespread reports of gross inefficiency and incompetence within the War Department. In particular, unhealthy conditions and the outbreak of disease at hastily constructed training camps led to the deaths of thousands of newly drafted soldiers and prompted a public outcry. The criticism was led by Democratic Senator George Chamberlain, and the adversarial response of Secretary of War Newton Baker and President Wilson established a cleavage between the legislative and the executive branches during the last year of World War I that carried over into the postwar period. Furthermore, it highlights tensions within the progressive movement, as the use of expanded federal authority led some progressive Democrats to emphasize loyalty to the Wilson administration, while others continued to emphasize reform and governmental transparency.

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Section: Drafted Into Squalor: the Training Camp Crisis Of 1917-18mentioning

confidence: 99%