Editing Albert Coady Wedemeyer (section)

==Prewar career==
[[File:Wedemeyer1920s.jpg|thumb|left|Albert C. Wedemeyer as a newly commissioned second lieutenant, pictured here sometime in the early 1920s]]
In 1919, he graduated from the [[United States Military Academy]] (USMA) at [[West Point, New York]]. On his first assignment, at [[Fort Benning]], Georgia, he became uncharacteristically drunk; a [[court-martial]] gave him six months of restrictions and reduced pay.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov/history/pdf/victoryplan-cmh-pub-93-10.pdf |title=An Unknown Future and a Doubtful Present: Writing the Victory Plan of 1941 |last=Kirkpatrick |first=Charles E. |page=7 |publisher=[[United States Army Center of Military History]] |year=1992}}</ref> By his own account, he was various grades of lieutenant for 17 years, before finally being promoted to captain in 1935.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.americanheritage.com/man-who-planned-victory |title=The Man Who Planned The Victory |last=Eiler |first=Keith E. |date=1983 |volume=34 |issue=6 |magazine=[[American Heritage (magazine)|American Heritage]]}}</ref>

Between 1936 and 1938, Captain Wedemeyer was one of a handful of United States Army officers, including [[Herman F. Kramer]], who attended the [[Prussian Military Academy|Kriegsakademie]] in [[Berlin]].<ref>Albert C. Wedemeyer, ''German General Staff School'', unpublished report, August 3, 1938, [http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p4013coll7/id/681/rec/7  Combined Arms Research Library, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas]</ref> While there he received instruction in armored warfare from [[Heinz Guderian]] and in ''[[Geopolitik]]'' from [[Karl Haushofer]]. He also met senior [[Nazi Party]] leaders such as [[Hermann Göring]] and [[Martin Bormann]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Roberts |first=Andrew |url=https://archive.org/details/masterscommander0000robe_g9v1 |title=Masters and Commanders: The Military Geniuses Who Led the West to Victory in World War II |publisher=[[Penguin Books]] |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-141-02926-9 |edition=1 |location=London |pages=130–131 |language=en |ref=None |via=Archive Foundation}}</ref> Soon after graduation from this school, he attended, as one of many international observers, the [[German Army (1935–1945)|German Army]] grand maneuvers of 1938.<ref name=":0" /> Moseley was suspected as a Nazi sympathizer by the [[FBI]].

When he returned to Washington that year, Wedemeyer analyzed [[Nazi Germany]]'s grand strategy and dissected German thinking. Wedemeyer thus became the United States military's foremost authority on German tactical operations, whose "most ardent student" was [[George C. Marshall]].<ref name=":0">[[Mark Perry (author)|Mark Perry]], ''Partners in Command.'' Penguin Books, 2007, Kindle loc. 4738-45</ref> Wedemeyer was greatly influenced and his career aided by his father-in-law, Lieutenant General [[Stanley Dunbar Embick]], the Deputy Chief of Staff and Director of the War Plans Division of the [[United States War Department]].