Fore-armed

The average American, tackling the subject of preparedness for the first time, will wade through reams of rhetoric until his mind is a mass of undigested military facts and fanc...

Military authorities agree that the German army organization surpasses all others. The present European war is the test that has demonstrated this fact. German national standard...

It is as true now as it was in Napoleon’s heyday of triumph that the _poilu_ carries a potential marshal’s baton in his haversack. This is the keystone of the French defense sch...

The problem of defense in Australia is in many ways identical with that of the United States. In the island commonwealth a constitution exists modeled on the lines of that gover...

In event of a great war the United States would suffer the same military experience as England. The positions and policy of the two countries are somewhat analogous and our mili...

The science of war is never stationary. While in times of peace the evolution of armament and tactics, as a rule, are gradual and slow, during active operations, revolutionary c...

“The United States ought not to indulge a persuasion that, contrary to the order of human events, they will forever keep at a distance those painful appeals to arms with which t...

“If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our growing prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war.”--GEORGE WASHINGTON.

A plan put forward to solve the defense problem of the United States can be simple in outline, but must become complex in detail. Yet the skein of detail will be readily disenta...