Combat leadership in the AEF: a tale of Alvin and Charles
"To be instructed in the dark art and mystery of managing men"
Small-unit leadership in the Old Army
"We find ourselves in need of a vast army of officers"
The stateside selection and training of officers
"By improvised and uncoordinated means"
Officer selection and training in 1918
"Ninety-day wonders" and "jumped-up sergeants"
Stateside mobilization and the challenges of small-unit leadership
"My God! This is Kitchener's army all over again"
Leader training in the American Expeditionary Forces in France
"Gone blooey"
The AEF's systems for addressing officer incompetence and inefficiency
Noncoms, doughboys and the Sam Brownes
The relations between the leader and the led in the US Army
Combat physics and the ugly realities of attritional warfare
The school of hard knocks
Combat leadership and the attritional battlefield
Conclusions: A tale of George and Henry
Appendix: Organization of AEF infantry rifle companies and platoons.