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Quantitively speaking, the AEF was present in 1918 in sufficient numbers to tilt the balance of attrition against the Germans, thanks in part to a premium on combat troops shipping after the Spring offensives. But the Stateside organisational framework to direct the fusion of civilian industry with military logistics did not fully find its feet until the end of the war.
— Sep 21, 2017 01:46AM
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the most significant difference in the draft of 17-18 & that of the earlier war was that local civilians rather than army officers administered it. Despite (un)justified criticism, the War Department accomplished much in'17: it inducted, fed, clothed, housed, armed, equipped, armed & trained a huge number of men. Almost 5 times the strength of the peacetime regular army, it managed to get some to France.
— Sep 18, 2017 02:31AM
