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This 6 page paper discusses some of the reasons why the U.S. military is often caught by surprise and unprepared at the outbreak of hostilities. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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This paper argues that U.S. unpreparedness stems from several causes including political maneuvering, civilian leadership of the military, and an inability to understand and adapt quickly to the changing nature
of war. Discussion Well consider several reasons why the military is often unprepared. First: Part of the problem may well be the Constitutional requirement that the commander-in-chief of all
the military forces be the President, who is a civilian while in office. That is, we have had presidents who were career military (Eisenhower and Grant, for example), but a
service President cannot be a military officer. However, when the President is ex-military, he has a greater understanding of military matters than if he never served. That doesnt necessarily make
him a great president, but it does suggest an affinity for the armed forces and their needs. Oddly, however, one of the greatest examples of unpreparedness of U.S. forces
is the Korean War. The President at that time, Harry Truman, was a veteran who "found success in the military" and worked his way up in the National Guard from
the rank of Private to Colonel in the course of a 37-year career (Harry S. Truman: His life and times: Military service; hereafter "Military service"). He saw active service in
WWI, where he "excelled as the commanding officer of a field artillery battery" (Military service). Truman and the other gunners learned their trade in Oklahoma; then they were sent for
advanced training at Camp Coetquidan in Brittany, France (Military service). After training, Truman was put in command of Battery D, where some of the men tried to intimidate him (Military
service). "Truman made the noncommissioned officers accountable for discipline and promised to back them up. Battery D soon realized that Truman knew what he was doing and followed him loyally
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