Notes on Strategy and Logistics (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Notes on Strategy and Logistics Introduction. The profession of arms. - In the intercourse of the human race there are conflicts of interest which, if these be paramount, end in war. War is, therefore, a condition: it cannot be concisely defined and the many definitions proposed are elusive and vexing. He who follows the profession of arms need not concern himself with them. For him it is enough to known that disputes between the most cultivated nations are settled ultimately by war and that success in the field establishes the standing of a people. He is familiar with the depressing story of nations sinking to decay when, in the pursuit of luxury and gain, they had lost the agressiveness which, wisely trained, defends that which is good and repels that which is evil, an agressiveness from which the noblest virtues have arisen. Armies. - War, indeed, has been often savage and soldiers have been brutal: but in human affairs, whether in church or state, nothing has escaped the ferment of development. The same influences have modified and tempered warfare which are always at work to purify and elevate. The love of power and the fascination of conquest, once mainsprings of conflict, are now disreputable, and no power may employ its armed forces with these motives however well disguised. An army has become as much a conservator of peace as it is and has always been an instrument of war. Even the reproach that is an aggregation of non-workers which contributes nothing to the common wealth must fall since humane and enlightened methods have made of the army a school of the officer a teacher and guardian, and of the soldier a pupil of the state. "To take a lad, before either stature, or gait, or habit is formed (often boorishly formed) and to give him an education at once physical and moral, to teach him to march, to ride, to fire, daily to pass many precious hours in the free open air, to give him habits of order, of precision, of cleanliness, of truth, to teach him how to obey and thus how to command, to tell him that he has duties which he owes to his country: and to redeem him at a critical age from idle frivolity" is to create a sterling citizen, an invaluable ingredient for the community to which he returns and on which he never will be a burden. A modern army produces producers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.