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Alexandra - nice work on this Padlet: you provided a good amount of information and most importantly, you showed some analysis and logical conclusions: Pershing took "stubborness" to a whole new level. Pershing had been told that new commanders typically had t lose 10-12,000 troops before they "figured out" how to fight this war. Pershing dismissed this as hokum...turns out, he was wrong. America lost far more than that figuring out how to fight the war!

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April 21, 2020
General Pershing, the man with a new army in an old war...

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General John J. Pershing has a list of attributes and qualifications that easier rival any United States Commander both before and after his command. This key attribute was th way in which he took charge of his new role as Commander. In his role General Pershing had to accomplish several things and they included mustering the whole new army, reform this army to fight a major continental war, transport this army over the Atlantic Ocean full of German U-boats, land the army, organize the army, and immediately put them in the trenches to hold off the Germans...

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One key item that General Pershing refused to listen to his allied counterparts on his doctrine of "open warfare." Pershing insisted that large infantry assaults, combined with superior marksmanship, and maneuver would win the battlefield. However, both French and British commanders opposed this type of warfare due to the large amounts of support troops needed to resupply Pershing abnormally large divisions. Its understandable how being the new general on the battlefield Pershing wanted to show his leadership abilities with the newly formed AEF, however, he was wrong in completely dismissing the advice of the old veterans of the war.

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My final thoughts on General Pershing is that he should be embodied as one of America's great leaders. He was faced with a very difficult position as Commander and he took it with stride. I could only image the amount of pressure he was under, not only by President Wilson but also his allies in Europe. If it had not been for General Pershing and the AEF it is difficult to say how much longer the war in Europe would have continued or for that fact, if the victors would have stayed the same. In the end General Pershing was a soldiers General, he had the willingness and the ability to back up what he said to his men on the battlefield.

Sources:

Mastriano, D. V. (2018). Thunder in the Argonne : A New History of America’s Greatest Battle. The University Press of Kentucky.

Grotelueschen, M. E. (2007). The AEF Way of War : The American Army and Combat in World War I. Cambridge University Press.

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General Pershing should be credited with taking an army that was woefully under prepared and equipped and turning it into a modern army capable of fighting in the First World War. Even though the tactics he had developed would prove to be inefficient in the trenches of Western Europe they still marked a vast improvement over what the standing doctrine of military tactics on the battlefield were. Pershing ability to not only navigate the military realm but also his ability to negotiate valuable resources for his army in the halls of congress.

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It is somewhat difficult to really knock General Pershing on many areas of his leadership, however, there stands to be one vital component to his leadership he needed to approve, and that was listening to those who had already experienced battle in the trenches of Europe. While I understand the wanting of General Pershing to show the world the might of the AEF but he was dismissive of those who tried to help him field his new army.