THE articles which are collected in this little volume appeared in the Morning Post and many other journals of consequence in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, and in the Overseas Dominions. They were written with the sole intention of explaining the precise position in the Western theatre of warfare, and convincing the man in the street and the man at the club window that the defeat of Germany is inevitable, if only the necessary efforts are made by the people of this country. They have already helped to strengthen the
and is the keenest student I know of war in all its aspects. His studies have been carried on, not in libraries, but on the field of battle—for he has served as a war correspondent in many parts of the world and seen the evolution of modern methods with his own eyes. At the same time he is conversant with the treatises of the true war experts—the soldiers—and is an admirer of Clausewitz, whose great work on the scope and intention of national warfare —as distinguished from the dynastic warfare of the eighteenth century and earlier ages—is indispensable to all students of the military art.
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