Germany's fighting machine; her army, her navy, her air-ships, and why she arrayed them against the allied powers of Europe . battle isa succession of single engagements of which the victoronly needs to win a good majority. The commanderno longer takes up a position, as Napoleon did at Leip-zig, where lie can oversee the whole field of operations;the best 2:>lace for him is some railroad junction or cen-tral telephone station, with wireless and ordinary tele-graph equipment, where messages can constantly besent and received, and to and from which he can despatchtroops, automobiles, motor-wa
Germany's fighting machine; her army, her navy, her air-ships, and why she arrayed them against the allied powers of Europe . battle isa succession of single engagements of which the victoronly needs to win a good majority. The commanderno longer takes up a position, as Napoleon did at Leip-zig, where lie can oversee the whole field of operations;the best 2:>lace for him is some railroad junction or cen-tral telephone station, with wireless and ordinary tele-graph equipment, where messages can constantly besent and received, and to and from which he can despatchtroops, automobiles, motor-wagons or aeroplanes. Oneof the chief modern problems is supplying suflficientammunition for quick-firing guns—the baggage trainsmust not be so long as to hinder the advance of thetroops, yet where there are many guns and each shootsoff hundreds of shots a minute, great quantities of am-munition are needed. I have spoken of military service being almost uni-versally compulsory in Europe. This means that everyman of a certain age and with the requisite health andstrength is obliged to report for duty. It has not hither-. o fcc c &C
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