What Price Glory, Captain Flagg? Leader Competency in the American Expeditionary Forces
Richard S Faulkner
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What Price Glory, Captain Flagg? Leader Competency in the American Expeditionary Forces

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This study examines how the American army trained and developed its company-level leaders during the First World War. It highlights the prewar army's concepts of leadership and explains the limitations of the army's system for selecting and training officers and noncommissioned officers. When the United States entered World War I, the army was unprepared to expand the officer and noncommissioned officer corps to lead a mass army in a modern war. This unpreparedness forced the army to adopt ad hoc measures to select and train junior leaders that compromised leadership competency and professiona...