WI: Fox Conner Army Chief of Staff

Fox Conner was a US General who served in the US Army for the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is often famed as the mentor of the generation of officers who served in the 2nd Worldwar most notable General Eisenhower. Now apparently Conner was once considered for the position of Chief of Staff which OTL went to Douglas Macarthur so the question here is what if Fox Conner becomes Chief of Staff instead of Doug Mac. What changes if any would appear in the Army and what would be the effects on the US Military by the start of the 2nd World War?
 
Mac allowed the needed reform or modernization of the Army officer schools. Connor would have done the same, tho the details would be different.

Would Mac go on to a second career as CoS of the new PI army? My guess is no.

There are butterfly effects here as to the next CoS (Craig Malin) & his successor (Marshal)
 

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Mac allowed the needed reform or modernization of the Army officer schools. Connor would have done the same, tho the details would be different.

Would Mac go on to a second career as CoS of the new PI army? My guess is no.

There are butterfly effects here as to the next CoS (Craig Malin) & his successor (Marshal)

I have to admit, I'm not at all familiar with Gen Conner. Just the cursory look at his Wiki, shows an active mentor with a real eye for talent. If that's the case, might his stint as CoS lead to earlier development of individual command officer skills which lays the groundwork for a better larger organization?

Malin Craig was considered a competent commander for the conditions of the late interwar period, correct? If he doesn't get the nod in 1935, who might? Too soon for Marshall?

How might Conner have handled the Bonus Army situation?
 
I have to admit, I'm not at all familiar with Gen Conner. Just the cursory look at his Wiki, shows an active mentor with a real eye for talent. If that's the case, might his stint as CoS lead to earlier development of individual command officer skills which lays the groundwork for a better larger organization?

Macs reforms of the officer schools took the Army in the same direction. Even before 1917 there was a growing recognition the Army was no longer a frontier police force, but a cadre for a large citizen army. Hence the doctrine that officers were teachers as much as small unit leaders. Lacking a detailed Prussian style playbook for mobilizing four million men, that did not fit US character. Individual initiative would be important.
 
..aaanndd with that, extensive thread drift sets in. (Intending no disrespect to Pathe.

Extensive thread drift is par for the course in any AH thread its amazing to see what any drift eventually leads into I remember reading something about eating rotten fish over on one of the Pacific war threads
 
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