Report on the Reserve and Auxiliary Forces of England and the Militia of Switzerland: Prepared in 1900 for President McKinley, and the Hon. Elihu Root, Secretary of War (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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It was nearly two thousand years after the world had received the glad tidings of Peace on earth, good will toward men, when the Czar of all the Russias, whose will is law throughout a vast empire more than twice as large as the United States, and who numbers his soldiers by the millions, asked the civilized world to unite in an effort to maintain general peace and to lessen the burdens borne by so many countries in their preparations for war.

Page after page Of history tells Of wars, waged sometimes with the noblest motives, but more Often prompted by greed and ambition; and many of the pages are stained with the record Of suffering and misery, and the indescribable horrors of sack and pillage. Even now when humanity has reached a higher level, bringing truer standards of action to people, rulers, and kings, Europe is like an armed camp, with heavy burdens on taxpayers to maintain the forces which are ever ready to destroy each other.

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