notes to pages 104‒109 385
- 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. - Ferrell, “Woodrow Wilson: Misfi t in Offi ce?” 68–69.
- Ferrell, “Woodrow Wilson: Misfi t in Offi ce?” 71–74.
- Trask, AEF and Coalition Warmaking , 25–26.
- Ferrell, “Woodrow Wilson: Misfi t in Offi ce?” 81–83; Link and Chambers,
“Woodrow Wilson as Commander-in-Chief,” 333. - Link and Chambers, “Woodrow Wilson as Commander-in-Chief,”
326–27. - 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. - Link and Chambers, “Woodrow Wilson as Commander-in-Chief,” 327;
Clements, Presidency of Woodrow Wilson , 156. - Clements, Presidency of Woodrow Wilson , 156–58 ; Link and Chambers,
“Woodrow Wilson as Commander-in-Chief,” 331. - Ferrell, “Woodrow Wilson: Misfi t in Offi ce?” 84–85; Eisenhower, Yanks ,
90–92. - Lyn Macdonald, 1915: Th e Death of Innocence (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2000), chap. 22. - Clements, Presidency of Woodrow Wilson , 158.
- Eisenhower, Yanks , 32.
- Trask, AEF and Coalition Warmaking , 20.
- Trask, AEF and Coalition Warmaking , 24.
- Coff man, “American Military and Strategic Policy in World War I,” 77;
Trask, AEF and Coalition Warmaking , 29–30. - 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. - Coff man, “American Military and Strategic Policy in World War I,”
77–79. - Trask, AEF and Coalition Warmaking , 38–39; Link and Chambers,
“Woodrow Wilson as Commander-in-Chief,” 339. - Trask, AEF and Coalition Warmaking , 29–30.
- For an account of the off ensives and the Allied response, see Trask, AEF
and Coalition Warmaking , chap. 3. - Trask, AEF and Coalition Warmaking , 54–55.
- Coff man, “American Military and Strategic Policy in World War I,” 79;
Trask, AEF and Coalition Warmaking , 64–65. - Coff man, “American Military and Strategic Policy in World War I,”
79–80.