VerDate 02<DEC>97 10:02 Dec 05, 1997 Jkt 174184 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 8008 Sfmt 8008 Y:\SGML\174184.CNT 174184 The Armistice Agreement "r- -5-- . . -r-"'", LO Uy'AIN HASSElT SIEGEN ':AR8URG ~,~RUSSELS' , (. . • ~. I}f " NAMU-R: . >:':-,~ / , .MARCHE /-\ 6 t. S / '\'\ \'\ /, t. I \) ~) '~ GONORECOU~T t._ •. · . c ~NEUFCHATEAU ALL! ED OFFENSIVE OPERATIONS I J JULY - NOVEMBER 1918 ~ILLINGEN AND .' .• CHAUMONT OCCUPATION OF RHINELAND lI r--) IAMPPPORROTAC XD.r -V,.~TAI NNC~t'E A ICL,1~I1 t9,G114'R 1t AT'9E1S8 l CiE:RMAN I ,~JlI\F~ lONES OCCUPIU_~ 8Y r....l, IE D ~0RCr.S " .... , .... " ·'VESOUl '-'~'~ M="'''''"~H'"'''' ----.- UNITED STATES ARMY IN THE WORLD WAR 1917-1919 The Armistice Agreement and Related Documents Volume 10. Part 1 CENTER OF MILITARY HISTORY UNITED STATES ARMY nc., WASHINGTON, 1991 UNITED STATES ARMY IN THE WORLD WAR, 1917-1919 Volume 1 Organization of the American Expeditionary Forces Volume 2 Policy-forming Documents of the American Expeditionary Forces Volume 3 Training and Use of American Units With the British and French Volume 4-9 Military Operations of the American Expeditionary Forces Volume 10 The Armistice Agreement and Related Documents Volume 11 American Occupation of Germany Volume 12-15 Reports of the Commander-in-Chief, AEF. Staff Sections and Services Volume 16 General Orders. GHQ. AEF Volume 17 Bulletins. GHQ. AEF v VerDate 02<DEC>97 10:02 Dec 05, 1997 Jkt 174184 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 8008 Sfmt 8008 Y:\SGML\174184.CNT 174184 FOREWORD Military historians and scholars of operational art have tended to neglect the role played by the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I. Although the Army orga nized a historical office in 1918 to prepare a multivolume history of the war. budget res traints and other considerations frustrated Chief of Staff Thsker H. Bliss' intention to "record the things that were well done, for future imitation ... , [and] the errors as shown by experience, for future avoidance." The momentous events of succeeding dec ades only strengthened this tendency to overlook our Army's role in the fields of France in 1918. This neglect, although understandable, is unfortunate: World War I posed unique challenges to American strategists, tacticians, and logisticians-challenges they met in ways that could provide today's military student with special insights into the profession of arms. To encourage further research in the history of World War I and to fill a gap in the Army's historical documentation of that conflict, the Center of Military History has cre ated a World War I series of publications consisting of new monographs and reprints. Complementing our newly published facsimile reprint Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War, we are reprinting this seventeen-volume compila tion of selected AEF records along with a new introduction by David F. 1task. Gathered by Army historians during the interwar years, this massive collection in no way repre sents an exhaustive record of the Army's months in France, but it is certainly worthy of serious consideration and thoughtful review by students of military history and strategy and will serve as a useful jumping off point for any earnest scholarship on the war. There is a certain poignancy connected with the publication of this collection in the seventieth anniversary year of "the war to end all wars." Later this summer veterans of that war will gather together, perhaps for the last time, to discuss the history of the American Expeditionary Forces and to reminisce about their service. To them espe cially, but to all five million Americans who served in World War I, we dedicate this scholarly undertaking. Washington, D.C. WILLIAM A. STOFFT 1 June 1988 Brigadier General, USA Chief of Military History vii VerDate 02<DEC>97 10:02 Dec 05, 1997 Jkt 174184 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 8008 Sfmt 8008 Y:\SGML\174184.CNT 174184