American Tactical Advancement in World War I
Subtitle: The New Lessons of Combined Arms and Open Warfare
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers; McFarland & Company; McFarland
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781476664194
Subjects: Unified operations (military science); Military doctrine; United states, army, infantry; Tactics; World war, 1914-1918, campaigns; World war, 1914-1918, united states
Description: "When the U.S. entered the war in 1917, the infantry was its primary offensive arm. By war's end the American Expeditionary Force had progressed developing techniques for breaking the trench warfare stalemate. The AEF integrated weapons like poison gas, tanks and aircraft into its offensive tactics and pioneered the mechanized combined arms warfare still practiced"--