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Página 13 - The academic theory of selection * * * is 100 percent correct. Its practicability is another thing. No logical mind can fail to wish the best man the more important positions; but when you consider the composition of our Army, scattered over 10,000 miles, where officers have a completely nonhomogeneous chance to display their ability; where the same commanders do not pass upon them, it is impossible to evolve any system where favoritism and privilege would not be important factors. If you take a...
Página 22 - The following were my recommendations on the subject to the Secretary of War: "My observation of British and French Armies and most exacting arduous service conditions at the front fully convinces me that only officers in full mental and physical vigor should be sent here.
Página 22 - French division commanders over forty-five or brigadiers over forty. We have too much at stake to risk inefficiency through mental or physical defects. Strongly recommend conditions be fully considered in making high appointments and suggest that no officer of whatever rank be sent here for active service who is not strong and robust in every particular. Officers selected for appointment as general officer of line should be those with experience in actively commanding troops.
Página 13 - ... any system where favoritism and privilege would not be important factors. "If you take a list of officers, there are a few that practically everyone would agree are exceedingly fine officers and should be advanced; but after you selected those few, it is astonishing how difficult it becomes to pick out what you think are the best ones. "In time of peace the measure of the capacity of an officer — the yardstick by which you measure his capacity — is not of such scope as to really define the...
Página 13 - ... standpoint, that it is not desirable, and would not advocate such process in the American Army. * * * > "In time of peace we do not attempt to apply the principle of selection until the higher command grades of general officer. In time of war we instantly jump to selection. We select in time of war * * *. "The academic theory of selection is 100 percent correct. Its practicability is another thing. No logical mind can fail to wish the best man the more important positions; but when you considered...
Página 22 - July 28, 1917, he cabled the following recommendations, the first of several increasingly emphatic messages on this subject, to the Secretary of War:* My observation of British and French armies and most exacting arduous service conditions at the front fully convinces me that only officers in full mental and physical vigor should be sent here.

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