Building up to World War I World War I, which began in 1914, was the …show more content…
The Secretary of War, Lindley
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Garrison, desired for a doubling of personnel in the Regular Army among other strategies to fulfil this preparedness. President Wilson increased the Regular Army a small amount to 175,000 but opposed many of the other strategies laid forth by Garrison3. 1916 also saw a first for the War Department as it was tasked by the President to find Francisco Villa, a revolutionary leader in Mexico whose followers had killed United States soldiers and citizens in Columbus, New Mexico. Since the General Staff had, in previous years, planned for full-scale war, it now found itself altering strategies and tactics to hunt an individual guerrilla leader3.
The interwar