In 1898 the American Regular Army was a small frontier constabulary
engaged in skirmishes with Indians and protesting workers.
Forty-three years later, in 1941, it was a large modern army ready
to wage global war against the Germans and the Japanese. In this
definitive social history of America's standing army, military
historian Edward Coffman tells how that critical transformation was
accomplished.
Coffman has spent years immersed in the official records,
personal papers, memoirs, and biographies of regular army men,
including such famous leaders as George Marshall, George Patton,
and Douglas MacArthur. He weaves their stories, and those of others
he has interviewed, into the story of an army which grew from a
small community of posts in China and the Philippines to a highly
effective mechanized ground and air force. During these years, the
U.S. Army conquered and controlled a colonial empire, military
staff lived in exotic locales with their families, and soldiers
engaged in combat in Cuba and the Pacific. In the twentieth
century, the United States entered into alliances to fight the
German army in World War I, and then again to meet the challenge of
the Axis Powers in World War II.
Coffman explains how a managerial revolution in the early 1900s
provided the organizational framework and educational foundation
for change, and how the combination of inspired leadership,
technological advances, and a supportive society made it
successful. In a stirring account of all aspects of garrison life,
including race relations, we meet the men and women who helped
reconfigure America's frontier army into a modern global force.
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