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The General: Robert L. Bullard and Officership in the United States Army, 1881-1925 (Contributions in Military Studies)

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Lieut. Gen. Robert Lee Bullard, United States Army, whose military career began in 1881 and ended in 1925, served during the formative period in history of American military policy and the Army. Most important, Bullard lived through the crucial phase of the professionalization of the United States Army officer corps. Bullard's career illuminates the process by which one man was integrated into the occupation of Army officer and came to hold high responsibility in his profession. It also reveals the fundamental changes in officer ship which accompanied America's emergence as a self-conscious world power, industrial nation, and an occupationally specialized society.

Contents

acknowledgments

introduction

the lieutenant 1861-1891

war and empire 1898-1904

in search of the new Army 1904-1912

watch on the Rio Grande 1912-1917

the world war 1917-1919

after the war 1919-1947

essay on sources

index