The Neck of the Bottle: George W. Goethals and the Reorganization of the U.S. Army Supply System, 1917-1918

Zimmerman finds that Goethals, who successfully engineered the Panama Canal, could not engineer a modern, rational organization for the US Army, even in the face of the crisis of WWI. She concludes that historians have heretofore overestimated Goethals contribution to order and efficiency, and demon