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| + | * {{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/historicalregis05heitgoog|title=Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army|last=Heitman|first=Francis B.|publisher=[[United States Government Publishing Office|Government Printing Office]]|year=1903|location=Washington, D.C.}} | ||
| + | * {{cite book|url=http://www.history.army.mil/books/root/appB.htm|title=From Root to McNamara - Army Organization and Administration|last=Hewes|first=James E., Jr.|publisher=[[United States Government Publishing Office|Government Printing Office]]|year=1983|location=Washington, D.C.}} | ||
| + | * {{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/ahistorywardepa03ingegoog|title=A History of the War Department of the United States|last=Ingersoll|first=Lurton Dunham|publisher=F. B. Mohun|year=1880|location=Philadelphia|pages=[https://archive.org/details/ahistorywardepa03ingegoog/page/n154 144]–146}} | ||
| + | * {{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/legislativehist00thiagoog|title=Legislative History of the General Staff of the Army of the United States|last=Thian|first=Raphael Prosper|publisher=[[United States Government Publishing Office|Government Printing Office]]|year=1901|location=Washington, D.C.|pages=[https://archive.org/details/legislativehist00thiagoog/page/n88 83]–118}} | ||
| + | * {{Cite book|url=https://history.army.mil/books/R&H/R&H-IG.htm|title=The Army of the US Historical Sketches of Staff and Line with Portraits of Generals-in-Chief|last=Sanger|first=J. P.|publisher=Maynard, Merrill, & Co.|year=1896|location=New York|pages=12–32|chapter=Inspector General's Department}}{{PD-notice}} | ||
| + | * {{cite book|url=https://history.army.mil/html/books/070/70-68-1/cmhPub_70-68-1.pdf|title=The inspectors general of the United States Army, 1903-1939|last=Whitehorne|first=Joseph W. A.|publisher=[[United States Army Center of Military History]]|year=1998|location=Washington, D.C.}} | ||
| + | * {{Cite journal|last=Maginnis|first=Robert L.|date=April 1993|title=IG's Old and New: Misunderstood Roles|url=http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a263237.pdf|journal=[[Military Review]]|volume=73|pages=55–62}} | ||
| + | * {{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/militarylawsuni00genegoog|page=[https://archive.org/details/militarylawsuni00genegoog/page/n271 263]|quote=Inspector General of the United States army role.|title=Military Laws of the United States (Army)|last=States|first=United|date=1901|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|language=en}} | ||
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Revision as of 04:59, 4 October 2021
The Office of the Inspector General is designed to be an impartial and neutral inspection service for the branches of the armed services in the United States.
History
the first Inspector General was Augustin de la Balme. 1777, who was made inspector-general of the cavalry of the United States of America and Philippe-Charles-Jean-Baptiste-Tronson Du Coudray as "Inspector General of Ordnance and Military Stores" during the United States Revolutionary War.
The first inspector general was Thomas Conway Next, Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben was selected by Washington.
The position continued, variously merged with, commanding or being commanded by the Adjutant General of the United States Army until after the United States Civil War, when it was formally established as an office equivalent to other Army departments.
It has grown progressively larger and larger over the years.
