This is

the B. S. I in the world. I'm John Bachelor with Professor Lloyd Clark,

Director of Research, the Center for Army Leadership

at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, as well as Professorial

Research Fellow in War Studies Humanities Research Institute University of Buckingham.

We're discussing his new book about leadership which the professor of drones and robots as it was in the 19th century with cavalry tactics in the 20th century inventing the tank.

We go now to George Patton.

George Patton is part of an army that does not proceed to France immediately in 1914. The bloodletting is

appalling. In 1917, it is the decision of the President, Mr Wilson, and Congress to commit the U.S. to the war.

And therefore, Patton needs to find a way to the battle.

He wants to fight.

He wants to be a general, and he believes war will make him a general. So he appeals to

Pershing to take him along in June of 17 which is a year before the US really

gets into the fight. Spring of 18 is when the US fights, but he goes off as

imagining himself as a hero and herein professor is striking. I have a note here that Patton publishes or writes a brief

notes on the Army Regiment of Tank. They're early on now he in 1916,

1916, 1917, the tank has been invented by the British Army,

and Patton is suddenly steered into thinking about it.

Is it comfortable for him?

He is a horseman and a cavalryman by Trey.

I think it is difficult for him as a cavalryman but not difficult for him as a professional.

He recognized that change endures and that maybe the day of the horse cavalry had passed and that the future was mechanized warfare.

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