page_title: Sherman Miles
section_title: Early military career
hierarchical_section_title: Sherman Miles / Early military career
caption_attribution_description: English: in 1904, Sherman Miles was a cadet at West Point Military Academy.
context_page_description: Sherman Miles was a General of the U.S. Army. He was Chief of the Military Intelligence Division in 1941, when the attack on Pearl Harbor happened.
context_section_description: Miles entered West Point on June 11, 1901, from where he graduated on June 13, 1905 and was commissioned as second lieutenant, 11th Cavalry. With the 11th Cavalry, he was sent in 1906 to Cuba by then Secretary of War William Howard Taft. Upon his return, he was transferred to the 3rd Field Artillery and promoted to first lieutenant in 1907.
  From 1912 to 1914, he was military attaché on the Balkans. During World War I, he served as military observer in Russia until 1916. He returned to the U.S. and was detailed to the General Staff Corps. In 1918, he was as an observer at the Argonne Offensive. As a General Staff member, he was temporarily promoted first to major in 1917, then to lieutenant colonel in 1918, and in 1919 to colonel.
caption: Miles, as a cadet
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