Show Weakness of Modern Armies Wo are hy 110 mon sure that armies ar-mies at tho end of the nineteenth century cen-tury are nol to some extent In tile can dltlon of the armies 0 f the lost few > par ofththe eighteenth century ru marku the London Spectator No doubt the modern generals are or hall we nay eeem less ulecj > h tied than the old bewigged 1 leeprhea and Prussialut though they irl It mile t tin re memlerl i were in their do reckoned mn of sclenvo but at the Panic time wo expect that a good deal of our I modern military organization ha become be-come stiff and unpractical Wo shelf bo told no doubt that the Prussian army well like cUckwork In 1s70 but we must le nllowol 11 dnubt whet the I + I ckwork Is quite nn nw flow All II van Then In spite or Appearances lesllcs Irtssla had Just the V en fore oposed to her I In 100 against filch good clockwork would ho l sure tl piev II a VNIether b nut military neel anlsin Whether Immli woull haw had As easy a victory It Rome Frenchman had orln c A p life Of or anlilng anl usli pr n ZA illy mobile force of CO 000 men Is I nnoth r quo Ion It Is I louilble that An I h a spear eil tuck Into the el In knrl might have done 0 grot Icalla if damage Thill howeverIs I 1lIlatlon What 000 do know li that the rusiilan army was u splen I ngl lln < c rganl rn at lie end 0 r the seven yar war and that ot Jena ionic forty years after It prod utterly unable to meet Nn Inlon ulk tloreo IISMOIlIt In si p Ite then ot the n ugi Iflccnt or nbL1IZ of the present l > luropenn irmles nnl of their last sbe wo le iirnflep 111te T em eve It to le quite possible tl at some Aew Alexander may orle ho will organize tt new mho of fighting which for a time nt any rile ma brine all their far strettl e I greitness I to rllin Ot course lIch Il gentus In I he nit of war may never get to Ihe front ltb that nll Is opportunity t exists In the prevent bloated Armaments we have no Per t of doubt Yet It will be sail how About the hlg 1 battalions I All military authorl lien agree that In the end und colloid erlng that the European nail on tire practically equ1 III courage anti morale mor-ale tile way to Win a battle Is to con front five men of the ei emy wtli Light or If possible ten men ot your ON n Thai Proves that big I armlei will Always bent the email lly 10 liens It is because wo entirely lind obBolutel Acquiesce In the 115 lint tallon theory Proldence Is I im the side of the I IB bittalloi s was Na PIleon dlctumtl v e hold I 1 that PALAU anti Properly organ imed mool Armies will bent the huge unwieldy armies that the moarn luro > can strategists eontemllat pitting In fin Held remember your i4g i I ittillon must confront the little battalion not on paper but on the grmud1pnee If a body of 0000 men can be swiftly and sullenly < onfnnt wi Itl tt lily of 40000 the blghuttaUon I rile Is I nn tlo side of the 40000 The fact that the 0100 belong to an orgnizotUn hlch I has I a roulle I ot hlllllrj 1 thousand thou-sand men behind It toes nol matter zind Ui less the 00000 lien are avultab at tire moment they lo not count Mi extremely mollle army I catty to sprllB Drat In one llrritl i And their In another Is quite eapnl lo ot eating 1 an mil y of throe or four tlniei Itsglze 1 and eating I It nlways ly halnf n substantial majority of corn at intu In every actual engamonl ot course the big army mal he so pllIdl or Itanlzed that It will be quite is mobile If nol more mobile limn the small army lit thaI ease the small armf will lie swallowed uliole All we contend is I that the hugeness of the Iurop li armies tend to make them Irmobll and thai therefore It Is I ohOlls poisll I that some clever Invei tlon lit the d lee tlon or Intense moblllt mot give victory vic-tory 11 > a Rmnl and apparently nol 111 tlcularly well foui d arm In other it spects |