Sixty years prior to the Army's transformation to a modular organizational construct; that is, before the Army mixed and fragmented its formations on purpose, the Army in the North African campaign was doing so simply because they had no other choice--given the constraints, self imposed and otherwise, under which they operated, one of the nation's heroes wrote: "To mix and fragment units is a military crime of the gravest sort."
The officer who penned those words was Brigadier General Theodore "Ted" Roosevelt, Medal of Honor recipient.
(Rick Atkinson, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2002), 276).
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