Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Quotes
As far as I’m concerned, the senior commanders of the Ottoman empire are useless. For me, the command structure of the army stops at majors. Tomorrow’s great commanders will come from their ranks. I’ll keep officers up to the rank of major on the army roll. The rest I’ll get rid of.
The leadership of the Ottoman Empire had become corrupt and degenerate
Kemal Ataturk, 1881-1938, 1st President and founder of the Turkish Republic, A statement to Inan Afet and some officers, Salonica Officers’ Club, Quoted in Andrew Mango, Ataturk,
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Ataturk, the great Turkish reformer, was interested in Turkish independence, development, and reform, but was uninterested in the day-to-day administration of government. He knew it had to be done and wanted his friend to be Prime Minister and run the government. Orbay realized that Ataturk would still be the major power in the nation.
The Confederate War Department was directly giving instructions to other officers in his command. Jackson was about to resign. Lee had not yet been given command of all the Confederate forces, and one of his great contributions was to be a buffer between Jefferson Davis and his War Department vis a vis the Senior Confederate officers. See for another example of the friction in the Confederacy.
This was an official publication of the U. S. Army. The First World War had very little affect on future military preparedness At that time conservatives in Congress were very isolationist and military preparedness was not a high priority or even a significant political issue. The Democrats then were more supportive of military spending than the Republicans. It took World War II, for which America was very unprepared, to produce a change in public and political opinion regarding military preparedness.
The governors of the states were in command of their militias in early America. They could appoint all the ranks up to Colonel, but only the Congress could appoint generals.
Written when he was forced to share command with General Francois Kellerman.
George Washington had been appointed by the Continental Congress as Commander in Chief of the Continental Army but was politic about keeping Congress informed and not appear to be usurping authority. He asked Adams for an opinion of whether his authority reached beyond Boston to include the defense of New York City. Adams had been a member of the Congress that appointed Washington. Adams reply has been used as precedent for the broad authority of the President as Commander in Chief by those claiming broad Presidential power since.
Monroe was then Secretary of State and Jefferson an ex-President.
Kemal Atatürk was a Turkish field marshal, revolutionary statesman, author, and the founding father of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first president from 1923 until his death in 1938. He undertook sweeping progressive reforms, which modernized Turkey into a secular, industrial nation. Ideologically a secularist and nationalist, his policies and theories became known as Kemalism. Due to his military and political accomplishments, Atatürk is regarded as one of the most important political leaders of the 20th century.
