386 notes to pages 109‒114
- Coff man, “American Military and Strategic Policy in World War I,”
81–82. - Trask, AEF and Coalition Warmaking , 74.
- Trask, AEF and Coalition Warmaking , 83–85, 91–92.
- Trask, AEF and Coalition Warmaking , 93–94.
- Trask, AEF and Coalition Warmaking , 100–1.
- Trask, AEF and Coalition Warmaking , chap. 6.
- Figures from http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/resources/casdeath_pop.html ,
accessed July 16, 2010. - Trask, AEF and Coalition Warmaking , 98–99.
- Trask, AEF and Coalition Warmaking , 131–34.
- Trask, AEF and Coalition Warmaking , 134–36.
- Th e record clearly does not support the contention by Link and
Chambers that Wilson remained in control of all military matters and
made the key decisions and that military professionals “were given
comparatively little freedom of action.” See Link and Chambers,
“Woodrow Wilson as Commander-in-Chief,” 319–21. - Clements, Presidency of Woodrow Wilson , 165–67.
- Trask, AEF and Coalition Warmaking , 156, 173–74. Unconditional surren-
der also received some popular support in the United States, but Wilson
refused to bow to the pressure. Gideon Rose, How Wars End: Why We
Always Fight the Last Battle (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2010), 41–42. - Trask, AEF and Coalition Warmaking , 161–62.
- Trask, AEF and Coalition Warmaking , 156–58.
- Clements, Presidency of Woodrow Wilson , 167–68.
- Trask, AEF and Coalition Warmaking , 158.
- Link and Chambers, “Woodrow Wilson as Commander-in-Chief,”
322–23; Clements, Presidency of Woodrow Wilson , 145. - Herbert Croly, Th e Promise of American Life (1909; reprint ed., Boston:
Northeastern University Press, 1989). Although it is diffi cult to call
particular texts representative of such a broad current, another infl uen-
tial volume in the period before the war was Walter Lippman, Drift and
Mastery (1914; reprint ed., Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985). - John F. McClymer, War and Welfare: Social Engineering in America,
1890–1925 (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1980), 154ff. ; Andrew J.
Polsky, Th e Rise of the Th erapeutic State (Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1991), 90. - “Does not every American feel that assurance has been added to our hope
for the future peace of the world by the wonderful and heartening things
that have been happening within the last few weeks in Russia? Russia was
known by those who knew it best to have been always in fact democratic
at heart, in all the vital habits of her thought, in all the intimate rela-
tionships of her people that spoke their natural instinct, their habitual
attitude towards life. Th e autocracy that crowned the summit of her