Word: subaltern
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...would be fallacious to state that its members had rounded out their knowledge to such an extent as thoroughly to fit them for even the multifarious duties of the subaltern. Military science has progressed so much in recent years as to require the highest degree of training on the part of the officer. To exercise intelligent command of troops, to know how to lead and to care for men, to make brain and body meter with the greatest gain and the minimum loss, mean close study and constant application covering a period of years, not months...