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FROM ROOT TO MCNAMARA ARMY ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION 1900-1963

Written by James E. Hewes
Published by Center Of Military History United States Army in 1975

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FROM ROOT TO MCNAMARA ARMY ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION 1900-1963
Written by James E. Hewes.
Stock no. 1806606
1983. Softcover. Very good condition.

Special Studies Series. Cardwraps. B/w photos and folded charts. xvii and 452 pages. Covers scuffed. Name in ink to verso of front cover. Title page slightly grubby. Contents otherwise fine.

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Cover of FROM ROOT TO MCNAMARA ARMY ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION 1900-1963 by James E. Hewes

Contents

  • I. THE WAR DEPARTMENT FROM ROOT TO MARSHALL
  • Creation of the New General Staff, 1900-1903
  • The Early Years of the General Staff, 1904-1917
  • World War I: The Bureau Period, 1917-1918
  • World War I: The March Period, 1918-1919
  • The Long Armistice, 1919-1939
  • II THE MARHSALL REORGANISATION
  • The Chief of Staff and Secretary
  • The General Staff Breaks Down, 1939-1941
  • The Reorganisation of March 1942
  • General Marshall's Command Post
  • Army Ground Forces
  • Army Air Forces
  • Army Service Forces
  • The ASF Control Division
  • The Technical Services
  • The Administration Services
  • The Service Commands
  • III. CHANGES IN THE MARHSALL ORGANISATION
  • The War Department General Staff
  • G-1
  • G-2
  • G-3
  • G-4
  • The War Department Special Staff
  • The Civil Affairs Division
  • Personnel and Manpower Problems
  • Research and Development of New Material
  • IV. THE EISENHOWER REORGANISATION
  • Genearal Marshall's Views on Postwar Military Organisation
  • The Special Planning Division and the Marshall Program
  • General Somervell and a Single Service of Supply
  • The Patch-Simpson Board
  • The Eisenhower Reorganisation of 1946
  • V. BETWEEN PEACE AND WAR
  • Unification
  • Army Ground Forces and Unity of Command
  • Planning for a Logistics Command
  • The Controller of the Army
  • The Johnston Plan and War Department Circular 342 of 1 November 1948
  • The Cresap, McCormick and Paget Survey
  • SR 10-5-1 and SR 10-500-1, 11 April 1950
  • The Army Organisation Act of 1950
  • The Command of the Army
  • VI. THE POST-KOREAN ARMY
  • The Palmer Reorganisation of the Army Staff, 1954-1956
  • The Feud Over Research and Development
  • Combat Developments
  • The Continental Army Command
  • VII. THE DEFENSE ENVIRONMENT OF THE 1950's
  • The Introduction of Functional Budgets
  • The Area of Common Supplies and Services
  • The Increasing Authority of the Secretary of Defence and the JCS
  • VIII. THE McNAMARA REVOLUTION
  • Mission or Program Budgets
  • Centralised Defense Functions
  • IX. PROJECT 80: THE HOELSCHER COMMITTEE REPORT
  • X. PROJECT 80: THE END OF A TRADITION
  • The Traub Committee Report
  • The Approval and Execution of Project 80
  • XI. CONCLUSION