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... military people for many years . The substantial basis of the European armies of 1914 was still a comparatively inexpensive infantry , assisted by machine - guns and field - guns and cavalry . By 1918 the infantry line is sustained by ...
... military people for many years . The substantial basis of the European armies of 1914 was still a comparatively inexpensive infantry , assisted by machine - guns and field - guns and cavalry . By 1918 the infantry line is sustained by ...
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... military science . Pretty as that looks , we must refute the error , for , in such dangerous matters as war , errors arising from good - nature are the worst of all . As the employment of physical force to its fullest extent in no wise ...
... military science . Pretty as that looks , we must refute the error , for , in such dangerous matters as war , errors arising from good - nature are the worst of all . As the employment of physical force to its fullest extent in no wise ...
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... military - population . The whole peo- ple- old men , women , and children included - took part in the toils and perils of war . There were no places of security in which the weak and the defenseless could take refuge . Everyone's life ...
... military - population . The whole peo- ple- old men , women , and children included - took part in the toils and perils of war . There were no places of security in which the weak and the defenseless could take refuge . Everyone's life ...
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... military machines . Frederick the Great employed a mercenary army as the nucleus for a national militia ; and so lately as the beginning of the last century , this system was celebrated as ideal by a noted military authority , Friedrich ...
... military machines . Frederick the Great employed a mercenary army as the nucleus for a national militia ; and so lately as the beginning of the last century , this system was celebrated as ideal by a noted military authority , Friedrich ...
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... military effort , by mutual consent , with a view to minimizing the horrors of war , belongs rather to legend than to sober history . It is true that the story of the Horatii and the Curiatii meets every schoolboy in the first pages of ...
... military effort , by mutual consent , with a view to minimizing the horrors of war , belongs rather to legend than to sober history . It is true that the story of the Horatii and the Curiatii meets every schoolboy in the first pages of ...
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