America's Deadliest Battle Analysis

After my reading of Robert Ferrell’s America’s Deadliest Battle, I was capable of grasping an understanding of the American Expeditionary Force’s preparation for their battle against Germany in 1918, in addition to assessing the quality of some of the officers and men within the AEF, and some of the actions that displayed the weaknesses and strengths of the AEF as well. Additionally, I will be touching basis on other measures that gave the battle at the Meuse-Argonne its name as “America’s deadliest battle,” and discussing my overall opinion on America’s fighting ability in World War I. The minute war was declared, the U.S. army made an attempt to mobilize the troops. The drained British and French troops, very much needed the relief offered
Although General Gallwitz, commander of the German troops and defender of the Meuse-Argonne triangle, was critical of the tactics of the AEF, he was astonished by the display of American strength that was present during this intense battle. Another strength for the AEF was the amount of infantrymen they had within their force. They had well over thousands of men and that included the troops as well. The AEF also had a huge amount of weaponry, such as machine guns, poison gas, combat aircraft, and other weapons born of the Industrial Revolution. Some weaknesses of the AEF were the weakness in their mobilization. The U.S. lacked some means of transportation, for instance ships, they had to seize ships from the Germans and their Allies lent them a few ships as well. Another weakness that the American Expeditionary Force had was the lack of training the American forces had been given. Pershing estimated that the United States would need to have at least 24 divisions on the western front for the Allies to have a chance to stop the expected German attack. At the time, few the U.S. held out much hope that the Americans could meet this