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The Direction of Supply Activities in the War Department; An Administrative Survey, II
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 September 2013
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Interestingly enough, in the extensive consideration given to War Department reorganization immediately after World War I, almost no attention was paid to the possible value of the S.O.S., A.E.F., experience. Three thousand miles behind the A.E.F., in Washington, it may have seemed that there was little to distinguish between the Services of Supply and the Purchase, Storage, and Traffic Division of the General Staff with its accumulation of hostile reaction.
In August, 1919, the General Staff of the War Department presented its version of desirable legislation for the reconstitution of a peace-time Army. The measure provided for a General Staff Corps to consist of a Chief of Staff with the rank of General, five assistants to be detailed from the general officers of the line, five Brigadier Generals, and 220 other officers. The bill provided that the Chief of Staff should have “supervision of all agencies and functions of the military establishment” under the direction of the President or the Secretary of War; and it went on to provide that “the Chief of Staff shall be the immediate adviser of the Secretary of War on all matters relating to the Military Establishment, and shall be charged by the Secretary of War with the planning, development, and execution of the war program.
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22 Ibid., p. 793.
23 Ibid., pp. 557–559
24 Ibid., pp. 448–449.
25 Ibid., p. 994.
26 Ibid., p. 1192.
27 Ibid., p. 1230.
28 Ibid., p. 1233.
29 Ibid., p. 2678.
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35 Ibid., p. 17.
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37 Ibid., p. 114.
38 Ibid., p. 109.
39 See p. 492 below.
40 “Final Report of the Chief of Staff, November 20, 1930,” Report of the Secretary of War to the President, 1930, p. 108.
41 Ibid., p. 116.
42 Ibid., p. 116.
43 Ibid., pp. 114–115.
44 Ibid., p. 116.
45 Ibid., 117.
46 Ibid., p. 121. See also the appendix to the Chief of Staff's report, “Mobilization of Resources,” prepared by Lt. Col. T. H. Emerson, C.E., p. 177.
47 “Annual Report of the Assistant Secretary of War,” Report of the Secretary of War, 1931, p. 47.
48 “Organization of the War Department for Supply,” Report of Committee No. 3, Course at the Army War College, 1936–1937, G–4, Dec. 14, 1936.
49 Annual Report of the Secretary of War for the Fiscal Year 1938, p. 1.
50 The name “Services of Supply” was changed to “Army Service Forces” on March 12, 1943.
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53 Ibid., p. 2.
54 Ibid., pp. 1 and 2.
55 Ibid., p. 6.
56 Ibid., p. 7.
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