Peter J. Schifferle

A scholarly work on the Fort Leavenworth school system, where a a generation of US Army officers was trained for higher command and staff duties between the two world wars. This book examines in detail the courses taught there, and the students who were taught. It corrects a number of myths about the way training was conducted. It is weakest in the final part of the book, as it rushes through the wartime courses at Fort Leavenworth, while acknowledging their importance. The book argues that American military success in World War II was more than a matter of material and resources, and owed much to the way in which they were utilised, a position becoming more orthodox all the time.… (more)