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Tango01 | 03 Apr 2017 11:55 a.m. PST |
…Depended on Foreign Weapons Technology. "On April 6, 1917, the United States declared war against Germany and entered World War I. Since August 1914, the war between the Central and Entente Powers had devolved into a bloody stalemate, particularly on the Western Front. That was where the U.S. would enter the engagement. How prepared was the country's military to enter a modern conflict? The war was dominated by industrially made lethal technology, like no war had been before. That meant more death on European battlefields, making U.S. soldiers badly needed in the trenches. But America's longstanding tradition of isolationism meant that in 1917 U.S. forces needed a lot of support from overseas allies to fight effectively. In Europe, American combat troops would encounter new weapons systems, including sophisticated machine guns and the newly invented tank, both used…" Main page link Amicalement Armand
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GildasFacit | 03 Apr 2017 12:05 p.m. PST |
Considering that they had been producing war materials for the Allies for 2 years this is rather a misleading introduction. The problem was that US industry was focussing on the contracts from the French and British governments and had little spare capacity to equip the new US army. The army's political masters had given the military planners very little notice as their understanding of how real armies worked was minimal – just like Britain's politicians in 1914. |
Wackmole9 | 03 Apr 2017 1:47 p.m. PST |
The reason for the lack of arms production, was Mr. Wilson didn't want people to see the vast amount of raw/semi Finished arms we were sell to the allies. It also allowed the Allies to pay off some of their debts to the US with finished arms. I think it was at the end of the war the British government sent a bill to the US government for transporting the AEF to Europe at the cost of 1st class passage for every man. |
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