I found an army site about the 1898 war. Https://www.spanamwar.com/foodarmyrecipes.html interesting that in the nearly 40 years since the Civil War, the Government supplied food for troops hadn't changed one jot. These descriptions could be word for word from letters written in the Petersberg Lines, or at Chatanooga.
These are "advanced" tank prototypes that were being designed and evaluated in anticipation of mass manufacture in US factories in an effort to send massive numbers to France in support of Haigs enormous Plan 1919 offensive.
The highest rank in the United States army is "General of the Army", the rank held by Eisenhower, and US Grant, and McArthur. This prescribes a 5 star rank insignia and some other perks, and the responsibility of overall direction of the or a, war effort, usuall limited to a given theater, and is familiar to most people as the highest general rank of our republic...except it isn't. Two extraordinary men have been elevated, intentionally, even beyond these dizzy heights, by act of Congress. The Rank is titled "General of The Armies", and was awarded to Washington, and to John .J.
one of the first Army trucks in the world the FWD was a brute of a vehicle in it's time, 4 cylinders with one of the first production 4 wheel drive systems on the road. This was the supply truck that Pershing took into Mexico to hunt Pancho Villa. They powered the AEF, and the Brits through WWi, and built US infrastructure in the 20s, a great many doing civic services in the post war era throughout the 20s.
There has been a slow accumulation of evidence over the past 3 or 4 decades that the drive wheels of the agricultural revolution in the neolithic was spurred, not by the effort to build a food surplus but instead to control beer production required for rituals, probably funereal rituals, and a transition from ancestor worship to diety worship requiring larger community "potlach" type feasting.
