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- Title
"Unsatisfactory and Futile": The Officers' Lyceum Program and U.S. Army Reform.
- Authors
Brands, Benjamin D.
- Abstract
In the late nineteenth century the U.S. Army underwent a prolonged reform movement aimed at professionalizing the army, especially the officer corps. Part of this movement was the beginning of a professional education system for officers, including the Officers' Lyceum program. This article argues that despite the significant challenges facing the program and its irregular implementation across the farflung frontier army, the Lyceums were an important and integral part of the greater professionalization of the late nineteenth-century army, furthering professional education within the army officer corps while providing a venue for the incubation of other reform ideas.
- Subjects
UNITED States; UNITED States Army officers; LYCEUMS; PROFESSIONALIZATION; MILITARY education; MILITARY bases
- Publication
Journal of Military History, 2019, Vol 83, Issue 4, p1067
- ISSN
0899-3718
- Publication type
Article