Excerpt from The Valor of Ignorance
Regular troops alone are equal to the exigencies of modern 'war, as well for defence as offence, and when a substitute is attempted, it must prove illusory and ruinous. No Militia will ever acquire the habits necessary to resist a regular force. The firmness requisite for the real business of fighting is only to be attained by constant course of discipline and service.
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Portsmouth Treaty. But it was put aside in order to allow sufficient time to verify or disprove its hypotheses and conclusions. In all but inessential details it remains as originally written. Succeeding events have so confirmed the beliefs of that time that I now feel justified in giving the book to the public. H. L. March,
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