Word: trenches
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Trench Warfare--Major de Reviers...
...Trench Warfare—Major de Riviers de Mauny...
Such universal love of the land must call for our commendation. The desire to live for one's nation in a truck-garden rather than dying for the same cause in a trench shows a proper philosophic regard for the value of human life. One can fight with potatoes as well as bombs and reap the harvest wheat instead of an unkind enemy...
Many hold a mistaken opinion of the engineers. It is not perpetual trench-digging. It is the most interesting and varied work in the army...
...before yesterday six French officers sailed from Bordeaux for Cambridge on a mission somewhat similar--to train the members of the R. O. T. C. in all phases of modern trench warfare. Military science has been revolutionized since the days of the Spanish-American war, our last war. Tactics count a great deal more, strategy much less. It is all important that our soldiers should know how to handle the new implements of warfare and understand their use. A platoon leader today has to do more than judge the range for his men and lead them over a ploughed field...