"Lafayette, We Are Here": The War College Division and American Military Planning for the AEF in World War I

Michael J. McCarthy, Marshall University, May 1992

Select the desired chapter to retrieve (each chapter is saved as a preformatted ASCII file):

• Title Page and Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Setting the Stage (24k)
• Chapter 1: Cast of Characters: Birth of US War Department General Staff, 1898-1916 (43k)
• Chapter 2: Exposition: American Military Planning Prior to January 1917 (95k)
• Chapter 3: America, Enter Stage Left: Military Planning, January - April 1917 (54k)
• Chapter 4: Over When? Plans for Sending an Immediate Expeditionary Force to France, April - June 1917 (58k)
• Chapter 5: Over Where? The Search for Alternatives to the Western Front, July - November 1917 (68k)
• Conclusion (17k)
• Select Bibliography (28k)

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