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Article: Elihu Root on the Army War College.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Parameters
- Article date:
- March 22, 2001
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Not to promote war, but to preserve peace by intelligent and adequate preparation to repel aggression, this institution is founded." With those words Secretary of War Elihu Root began his address at the laying of the cornerstone for the Army War College, 21 February 1903. He would also speak on 9 November 1908, as Secretary of State and the college founder, when the building was completed. The Army War College is no longer at that location, but Root's conception of it lives on, now looking to its second century.
War Department General Order Number 155, dated 27 November 1901, established the basis for a formal tiered system of officer education, with the war ...