Trained Citizen Soldiery: A Solution of General Upton's Problem (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Parker, John H.

9781331102427: Trained Citizen Soldiery: A Solution of General Upton's Problem (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 1331102421 ISBN 13: 9781331102427

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2019

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Excerpt from Trained Citizen Soldiery: A Solution of General Upton's Problem

Vice, is bound to fail. If a country is not worth fighting for, and if its citizens are not willing to.

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Excerpt from Trained Citizen Soldiery a Solution of General Upton's Problem

"The Causes of the weakness are as follows:

First. The employment of militia and undisciplined troops commanded by generals and officers utterly ignorant of the military art.

Second. Short enlistments from three months to three years, instead of for or during the war.

Third. Reliance upon voluntary enlistments, instead of voluntary enlistments coupled with conscription.

Fourth. The intrusion of the States in military affairs and the consequent waging of all our wars on the theory that we are a confederacy instead of a nation.

Fifth. Confusing volunteers with militia and surrendering to the States the right to commission officers of volunteers the same as officers of militia.

Sixth. The bounty - a national consequence of voluntary enlistments.

Seventh. The failure to appreciate military education, and to distribute trained officers as battalion, regimental, and higher commanders in our volunteer armies.

Eighth. The want of territorial recruitment and regimental depots.

Ninth. The want of postgraduate schools to educate our officers in strategy and the higher principles of the art of war.

Tenth. The assumption of command by the Secretary of War.

The main features of the proposed system are as follows:

First. In time of peace and war the military forces of the country to consist of -

The Regular Army,
The National Volunteers, and
The Militia.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.