The Reformation of WarHutchinson & Company, 1923 - 287 pages |
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action aeroplane air force aircraft armour arms army attack battle battle of Hamel battlefield become brain British British Army bullets carry casualties cavalry cavalry tank Chapter chemical Chemical Warfare civil co-operation combined general staff command common-sense consequently Declaration of Paris demoralization destroy destruction economic economy of force efficiency enemy enemy's ethical evolved examine existence fact fighting fire fleet future German grand strategist grand strategy grand tactical hostile human hunting spirit idea infantry instincts killing land machine gun means of movement mechanical mental miles military mind mobility moral move mustard gas nation nature naval navy objective offensive once operation organization peace physical political possess possible principles principles of war problem prosperity protection realized revolution shells shibboleths ships small wars soldier square miles strategy submarine superiority supply tank tion to-day Treaty of Versailles troops victory weapons whole
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Page 19 - Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by, When the poor are hovell'd and hustled together, each sex, like swine, When only the ledger lives, and when only not all men lie; Peace in her vineyard - yes!
Page 121 - But with all these assurances, we should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate.
Page 281 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Page 120 - The use of asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases and all analogous liquids, materials or devices being prohibited, their manufacture and importation are strictly forbidden in Germany.
Page 19 - Why do they prate of the blessings of Peace? we have made them a curse, Pickpockets, each hand lusting for all that is not its own; And lust of gain, in the spirit of Cain, is it better or worse Than the heart of the citizen hissing in war on his own hearthstone?
Page 267 - We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
Page 76 - At first there will be increased slaughter - increased slaughter on so terrible a scale as to render it impossible to get troops to push the battle to a decisive issue. They will try to, thinking that they are fighting under the old conditions, and they will learn such a lesson that they will abandon the attempt for ever.
Page 121 - We trust that Parliament will, in all railways it may sanction, limit the speed to eight or nine miles an heur, which we entirely agree with Mr. Sylvester is as great as can be ventured on with safety.
Page 120 - Whereas the prohibition of such use has been declared in treaties to which the majority of Powers of the world are parties; and To the end that this prohibition shall be universally accepted as a part of international law, binding alike the conscience and the practice of nations...
Page 120 - It undertakes further to prevent temptation to the violation of these rules by the use of submarines for the capture of merchant vessels, and to prohibit that use altogether. It undertakes further to denounce the use of poisonous gases and chemicals in war, as they were used to the horror of all civilization in the war of 1914-1918. " Cynics have said that in the stress of war these rules will be violated. Cynics are always near-sighted, and often and usually the decisive facts lie beyond the range...