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Training the Army for War

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 2, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 1.

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Training the Army for War

ONE of the recommendations of the secretary of war, in his annual report to Congress, is that there shall be continued exercise and training of the army “in large bodies of troops,” in times of peace, under conditions “as nearly as possible approaching those of actual war;” that is, that there shall be frequent maneuvers after the manner of Germany and the other great war empires of Europe. And why should all this be? When could such armies really be needed in the United States? And how could they ever be needed anywhere else? But since this is regarded a necessity, it can be only expected, if not intended, that they shall be used somewhere else.