Elusive Victories_ The American Presidency at War-Oxford University Press (2012)

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notes to pages 104‒109 385


  1. Just before Wilson asked for a declaration of war, the chief of ordnance
    for the army estimated it would take two and a half years to fully equip
    a one-million-man U.S. Army. Esposito, “Woodrow Wilson and the
    Origins of the AEF,” 129–30.

  2. Ferrell, “Woodrow Wilson: Misfi t in Offi ce?” 68–69.

  3. Ferrell, “Woodrow Wilson: Misfi t in Offi ce?” 71–74.

  4. Trask, AEF and Coalition Warmaking , 25–26.

  5. Ferrell, “Woodrow Wilson: Misfi t in Offi ce?” 81–83; Link and Chambers,
    “Woodrow Wilson as Commander-in-Chief,” 333.

  6. Link and Chambers, “Woodrow Wilson as Commander-in-Chief,”
    326–27.

  7. Link and Chambers, “Woodrow Wilson as Commander-in-Chief,”
    329–30. On Wilson’s use of the Overman Act to reform procurement and
    transportation, see Trask, AEF and Coalition Warmaking , 26–27.

  8. Link and Chambers, “Woodrow Wilson as Commander-in-Chief,” 327;
    Clements, Presidency of Woodrow Wilson , 156.

  9. Clements, Presidency of Woodrow Wilson , 156–58 ; Link and Chambers,
    “Woodrow Wilson as Commander-in-Chief,” 331.

  10. Ferrell, “Woodrow Wilson: Misfi t in Offi ce?” 84–85; Eisenhower, Yanks ,
    90–92.

  11. Lyn Macdonald, 1915: Th e Death of Innocence (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
    University Press, 2000), chap. 22.

  12. Clements, Presidency of Woodrow Wilson , 158.

  13. Eisenhower, Yanks , 32.

  14. Trask, AEF and Coalition Warmaking , 20.

  15. Trask, AEF and Coalition Warmaking , 24.

  16. Coff man, “American Military and Strategic Policy in World War I,” 77;
    Trask, AEF and Coalition Warmaking , 29–30.

  17. Determined to retain his freedom of action, Wilson refused to appoint a
    political delegate to the Council, in contrast to the Allies. Th e president
    appointed General Tasker Bliss as his permanent military representative.
    Trask, AEF and Coalition Warmaking , 31.

  18. Coff man, “American Military and Strategic Policy in World War I,”
    77–79.

  19. Trask, AEF and Coalition Warmaking , 38–39; Link and Chambers,
    “Woodrow Wilson as Commander-in-Chief,” 339.

  20. Trask, AEF and Coalition Warmaking , 29–30.

  21. For an account of the off ensives and the Allied response, see Trask, AEF
    and Coalition Warmaking , chap. 3.

  22. Trask, AEF and Coalition Warmaking , 54–55.

  23. Coff man, “American Military and Strategic Policy in World War I,” 79;
    Trask, AEF and Coalition Warmaking , 64–65.

  24. Coff man, “American Military and Strategic Policy in World War I,”
    79–80.

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