The AEF Way of War: The American Army and Combat in World War ICambridge University Press, 2006 M11 20 - 387 pages This 2007 book provides the most comprehensive examination of American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) combat doctrine and methods ever published. It shows how AEF combat units actually fought on the Western Front in World War I. It describes how four AEF divisions (the 1st, 2nd, 26th, and 77th) planned and conducted their battles and how they adapted their doctrine, tactics, and other operational methods during the war. General John Pershing and other AEF leaders promulgated an inadequate prewar doctrine, with only minor modification, as the official doctrine of the AEF. Many early American attacks suffered from these unrealistic ideas that retained too much faith in the infantry rifleman on the modern battlefield. However, many AEF divisions adjusted their doctrine and operational methods as they fought, preparing more comprehensive attack plans, employing flexible infantry formations, and maximizing firepower to seize limited objectives. |
Contents
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Section 2 | 59 |
Section 3 | 65 |
Section 4 | 66 |
Section 5 | 91 |
Section 6 | 95 |
Section 7 | 106 |
Section 8 | 126 |
Section 13 | 191 |
Section 14 | 200 |
Section 15 | 209 |
Section 16 | 238 |
Section 17 | 239 |
Section 18 | 280 |
Section 19 | 294 |
Section 20 | 298 |
Section 9 | 142 |
Section 10 | 143 |
Section 11 | 176 |
Section 12 | 188 |
Section 21 | 310 |
Section 22 | 311 |
Section 23 | 329 |
Section 24 | 343 |
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The AEF Way of War: The American Army and Combat in World War I Mark Ethan Grotelueschen No preview available - 2006 |
The AEF Way of War: The American Army and Combat in World War I Mark Ethan Grotelueschen No preview available - 2010 |
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1st Division Historical 26th Division 2nd Brigade 2nd Division Historical 37mm guns 3rd Brigade 77th Division Historical advance AEF divisions AEF doctrine Aisne-Marne Offensive Alexander Allied Argonne Army Corps Historical artillery fire artillery support assault attack plan August battalion battle battlefield bayonet Belleau Wood Cantigny casualties Chief of Staff combat Corps Historical File defensive divi division commander Division Historical File division’s Edwards Papers F.A. Brigade Field Orders fighting firepower flank Folder forward front lines German Harbord howitzers HQ 1st Division HQ 77th Division Infantry Brigade infantry regiments July kilometers Lejeune Liggett light guns machine guns Malin Craig maneuver Marines Memorandum Meuse River Meuse-Argonne Meuse-Argonne Offensive mortars November objective October open warfare Pershing Pershing's positions Report of Operations rolling barrage sector September 1918 set-piece attacks Soissons Stokes mortars Summerall tactics tanks trench warfare troops U.S. Army units USAWW weapons Western Front WWRFD
Popular passages
Page 22 - It appears that although field artillery has played an important r6le in all modern wars, its use has now been extended to the point where it becomes a question as to whether it does not actually make the main attack, which is rendered permanently effective by the infantry advance, instead of, as formerly considered, being used to prepare the way for the main attack to be made by the infantry.