This is CBSI in the world, I'm John Batcher with Professor Lloyd Clark, Director of Research

the Center for Army Leadership at the Royal Military Academy at Sanhurst, as well as

Professorial Research Fellow and War Studies Humanities Research Institute University

of Buckingham.

We're discussing his new book about leadership, which the professor tells me is his critical

today in the 21st century when we're dealing with 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 US

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.

The spring of 18 is when the US fights, but he goes off as imagining himself as a hero,

and here in, Professor is striking.

I have a note here that Patton publishes or writes a brief notes on the Army Regiment

of Tanks.

There early on now, he in 1916, 1917, the tank has been invented by the British Army.

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