. The Great war. Belgian rapid fire guns in carts drawn by Belgian battery screened by woods. The Armies of Serbia, Belgium, and Italy 357 the system of voluntary enlistment proved a failure, asindeed it must always do when adequate numbers arerequired for military preparedness. Special inducementsin pay and emoluments will produce neither the numbersrequired for national defense nor the class of recruits whowill take the intensive training on which the creation of anefficient reserve depends. The first step in the creation of a national army was takenwhen the law of 1909 provided for t
. The Great war. Belgian rapid fire guns in carts drawn by Belgian battery screened by woods. The Armies of Serbia, Belgium, and Italy 357 the system of voluntary enlistment proved a failure, asindeed it must always do when adequate numbers arerequired for military preparedness. Special inducementsin pay and emoluments will produce neither the numbersrequired for national defense nor the class of recruits whowill take the intensive training on which the creation of anefficient reserve depends. The first step in the creation of a national army was takenwhen the law of 1909 provided for the military training ofone son in each family. The peace strength remainedabout 40,000, and the period of liability was reduced totwelve years; but the compulsory enrollment of about17,000 recruits annually and the corresponding elimina-tion of long service men would rapidly create a valuabletrained reserve. At this time, however, the new schemeof defense revived the importance of Antwerp as an in-trenched camp without abandoning Liege and Namur,so that the new
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