My Pershing Assignment by Cindy Engleka https://padlet.com/cengleka/9nitixld5dg6 Made with the best of intentions en-us 2020-01-20 00:19:40 UTC 2025-10-08 11:29:47 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f940.png John J Pershing cengleka https://padlet.com/cengleka/9nitixld5dg6/wish/433476256 Cindy A Engleka
January 19, 2020
HS315 Leadership Great Commanders]]> 2020-01-20 00:25:36 UTC https://padlet.com/cengleka/9nitixld5dg6/wish/433476256 Positive Attributes cengleka https://padlet.com/cengleka/9nitixld5dg6/wish/433476466 General Pershing was a great leader, he had a brilliant mind.  We know that he mentored some great leaders of our time, George S. Patton, Dwight D Eisenhower ]]> 2020-01-20 00:27:31 UTC https://padlet.com/cengleka/9nitixld5dg6/wish/433476466 Negative Attributes cengleka https://padlet.com/cengleka/9nitixld5dg6/wish/433476496 General Pershing was not a person who was willing to attempt new ideas or ways of accomplishing things.  He was a person who felt that the tried and true methods are the best and worked well in the past and will continue to work well.  In believing this he did not agree to use the modern warfare techniques and cost Americans and allies’ lives that may have potentially been saved if he was willing to adapt to new ideas ]]> 2020-01-20 00:27:44 UTC https://padlet.com/cengleka/9nitixld5dg6/wish/433476496 Why Studying Pershing leadership is important today cengleka https://padlet.com/cengleka/9nitixld5dg6/wish/433476683 The reason we should be studying Pershing's leadership skills today would be to learn from his brilliant career and insight to ways of leading a command. Also, we should be learning from the mistakes he made and the fact that he was not a person who liked to change and go with the changes that were continually happening around him.]]> 2020-01-20 00:28:58 UTC https://padlet.com/cengleka/9nitixld5dg6/wish/433476683 Final Conclusions cengleka https://padlet.com/cengleka/9nitixld5dg6/wish/433476754 In conclusion, I feel that Pershing was a great leader who was able to train many troops to take on a new way of fighting and was able to overtake Germany. However, this being said he was also a person who did not like
 to deal with new ideas right away and felt his ways were good enough and since that was the case there was loss of troops from all sides when it may not have been necessary. We all don't like new ways or things but sometimes it may help improve the work needed to be done. We all should be open-minded to new things or ways and at least be willing to listen.

]]> 2020-01-20 00:29:33 UTC https://padlet.com/cengleka/9nitixld5dg6/wish/433476754 References cengleka https://padlet.com/cengleka/9nitixld5dg6/wish/433476853 https://www.biography.com/military-figure/john-j-pershing 

Faulkner Ph.D., Richard S.   John J. Pershing The Very Model of A Modern Major General       Great Commanders  Chapter 5 Edited by Christopher R. Gabel, Ph.D. James H. Willbanks, Ph.D.

Zabecki, David T.  Racing Headlong,  May 2018

Retrieved from: file:///C:/Users/Grand/OneDrive/Desktop/pershing%20wk%206.pdf 
]]> 2020-01-20 00:30:15 UTC https://padlet.com/cengleka/9nitixld5dg6/wish/433476853 John J Pershing cengleka https://padlet.com/cengleka/9nitixld5dg6/wish/433477879 2020-01-20 00:37:49 UTC https://padlet.com/cengleka/9nitixld5dg6/wish/433477879 Interesting information about Pershing cengleka https://padlet.com/cengleka/9nitixld5dg6/wish/433478725 Pershing down-played the fact that many American generals wanted Summerall should have been court-martialed and felt that it was a misunderstanding.  This may be because of a question of his own responsibility for the confusion and mess.  Four of the six chiefs of staff of the Army during that period – Pershing,  Summerall, MacArthur and Marshall all had been involved in the November 6-7 fiasco to one degree or another.  The ultimate price that was paid was the soldiers killed or missing.

Pershing entered active service he was a cavalry officer in 1886, which was dealing with horses, single-shot carbines and occasional Gatling Gun or mountain howitzer, and with about 28,000 men.  During his command in France Pershing was dealing with rapid firing artillery, tanks, machine guns, aircraft, and the industrial-strength logistics and administration of an army of two million men in the AEF alone.

Pershing tenure as the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) in France was for 17-months.  He was not a commander who was out with the troops like Napoleon, he was in the base using the telegraph and wireless, telephone and signaling instruments to get the information to his leaders.

Meuse-Argonne Offensive

1,200,000 U.S. TROOPS 122,063 CASUALTIES 26,277 DEAD, 95,786 WOUNDED

 220,000 FRENCH TROOPS 70,000 CASUALTIES

 450,000 GERMAN TROOPS 126,000 CASUALTIES 28,000 DEAD



]]> 2020-01-20 00:43:36 UTC https://padlet.com/cengleka/9nitixld5dg6/wish/433478725 Some Reading materials about Pershing cengleka https://padlet.com/cengleka/9nitixld5dg6/wish/433478931 Until the Last Trumpet Sounds   life of General of the Army John J Pershing By: Gene Smith
Black Jack The Life and time of John J Pershing Vol 1 By: Frank E Vandiver
John J. Pershing Great Military Leaders   Tim McNeese
My Life Before The World War 1860-1917 a memoir General of the Armies John J Pershing Edited and with introduction by John T Greenwood]]> 2020-01-20 00:45:00 UTC https://padlet.com/cengleka/9nitixld5dg6/wish/433478931 Connolly https://padlet.com/cengleka/9nitixld5dg6/wish/434764581 Cindy - good presentation...I see that the organization of the boxes is still a bit of a work in progress. 

I am glad that you were able to clearly describe just how huge this was for Pershing: the 19th century leader trying to lead in a new century - there is plenty for us to learn from that today!]]> 2020-01-22 19:33:32 UTC https://padlet.com/cengleka/9nitixld5dg6/wish/434764581