Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...rigid discipline as can be found anywhere, with the added advantage of good food and comfortable sleeping quarters. Two of the French officers will give instruction in the co-operation of the artillery with the infantry in active service. This co-ordination forms a most important factor in modern warfare. So much of the instruction being given here is equally necessary in the artillery that the benefit of the camp to Yale men will be incalculable...
Such spontaneous and universal comprehension of a national need is praise-worthy. But unfortunately modern armies are not composed of simple elements. They are vastly complex, and the abilities which go to make them must be vastly complex. We need officers of the battle-line; we need cultivation of our productive soil. But we need in addition, engineers and artillery men, manufacturers, business men, doctors. If we turn all our technical school men into infantry officers, we shall have no bridges to cross, for none will be built. If we turn all our medical students into farmers, the armies...
...given to the world by Pasteur and his followers has enabled the medical corps of all the warring armies to restore in the shortest time and with the least loss of effectives wounded or otherwise disabled men to the fighting line. On the efficiency of its medical staff a modern army depends no less than on the battering power of its great guns...
...fearful cost of modern warfare, those national powers which once insured victory for a people no longer avail. Valor and fortitude, however great, may win unaided skirmishes, but they may not win wars. The fullest resources of the nation in material must be gathered together to arm troops and sustain them during the long havoc-working months in the field. As example of this, if the constantly expected but unlikely sudden breakdown does occur in Germany, it will be not a breakdown of man power, but of material, of money, of national credit whereby individuals will cease to bear arms...
...Chinese are given the best of equipment and training, as the people are in this country, the question whether they are cowardly can then be decided on the battlefield in a future war. If China should have awakened fifty years earlier, and succeeded in establishing a large modern army and navy and developing her resources, the author of the editorial would not probably rest assured that she could not constitute an equally effective threat as militant Japan is often held...