Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II TRAINING AN ARMY FOR MODERN WARFARE Lecture Of October 22, 1917 Summary Instruction saves losses and gives victory. — Definition of instruction. — To whom it is directed. — Principles of specialization and of coordination. Part played by the different arms in an army. — Infantry: the movement and its fire; arms of low and high trajectory; the bayonet; the 37-mm. cannon; the knowledge that an infantryman must possess; courage his essential quality. —Artillery: its part on the offensive and on the defensive; trench artillery; assaulting artillery; artillery on rapid motor vehicles; field artillery; heavy artillery; high-power artillery. — The engineers: their instruction as a whole, and the instruction of special units. — Cavalry: its decreased importance; its use as infantry. — Aircraft: airplanes for information, for the adjustment of fire, for fighting, for bombing; balloons; dirigibles.— Specialization. — Coordination. Organization of the instruction of an army. — The problem of instruction is a permanent one. — Demonstration of four essential principles governing the organization of instruction. — Instruction must begin from the top, not from the bottom. Practical organization of the instruction in the French army. — How the necessity of this organization appeared. — Schools for officers and schools for specialists. — Permanence and continuity necessary for schools. — Army schools: divisional dep6ts and their schools; battalions of instruction and their schools; depOts and camps in the interior. — Essential function of army schools. — Choice of the director of instruction of an army and of his collaborators. Organization of the instruction of the American army. — The American Mission at Paris. — The French Mission at Harvard University. — Proposals ma...