DZ Season 064 Part 55. End the War in 44 – The American Way of War – What the Brits Had to Say.
The Americans did not give a great deal of thought to morale, in the sense of fighting spirit. Generals in all armies as a matter of faith and national pride believe that their soldiers are naturally endowed with courage. The younger American soldier was buoyed up by his national self-confidence, and the older by the memories of a war which for them had ended quickly in a glorious victory for American arms, or so it was perceived. Unlike the British, there was no folk-memory of the murderous attrition of 1916 and 1917: the AEF had emerged from the war in 1918 with its belief in unlimited…
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