Show iiii A THE C B OF NATIONAL DEFENS WHAT THE ARMY AND NAVY b- b WOULD THEY HAVE TO DO IN SHOULD WAR WAft HAVE TO DO FOR FOft SUCCESSFUL IT AND WHAT THEY 6 THOUSAND DAY EXPRESSING THE MOST WO OPINIONS AS AUTHORITATIVE FACT TO OUR NATIONAL NEEDS By J. J W. W MULLER Author of or The ibo Invasion ot of Ameri America The Army Division Why DivIsion Why It and It Alone Is an Effective Fighting Formation All army formations from tho the company to the division have havo been devised with one object which Is to combine combino numbers of men In such stick assemblage as ns that their united action shall be he as nearly as possible equal In quickness ease and certainty to the act of at one completely efficient man Thus the tho company the smallest administrative unit should move and strike like ono one single man with the strength of a hundred The battalion should strike like Ilice four tour such supermen super men and thus should deliver a blow equal to that of a man times as R powerful as an ordinary human man Concentration of ot power and the tho ability to wield that concentrated power quickly underlie all the tactical tactical tac tac- tac- tac formations of every army They are the fundamental reason that has caused practically all nations to organize organize or their armies Into organizations within organizations compa compa companies ales nies battalions regiments brigades divisions and finally the field array army which Is tho the sum of or them all Details such as the time numbers of men in each formation var vary accordIng accord accord- Ing to the military jud Judgment ment of oC various va va- rious nations It Is quite possible that American Ideas may be altered more or less after the lessons of oC the European war become available Such changes however will be mattera matters matters mat mat- tera for technical experts to consider con con- sider elder and not for the people Whatever they may be the principle principle plo of army organization will remain the same samo The European war misleading misleading misleading mis mis- leading though most of ot the statements statements state state- ments from the belligerent nations necessarily are aro has haR established the tho fact tact that the fundamental principle of constructing an army has not changed This principle of or construction is as follows Infantry Four Infantry Four companies make one battalion three battalions one regiment three regiments one gade gacIe Cavalry Four Cavalry Four troops make one squadron three squadrons ono regi ment meat three regiments one brigade Field artillery Four artillery Four guns and twelve caissons make one battery batter three batteries ono one battalion two battalions one regiment two regiments regiments regi regi- ments one brigade I Engineers Four Engineers Four companies make make- one ono battalion three battalions one ono regiment None of ot these alone makes an army Infantry without cavalry would be without a guide Cavalry and Infantry without artillery would be pow pounded ded to bits Artillery without without with with- out engineers could not cross a stream that a barefoot boy might wade Infantry cavalry artillery engi engl nears and their auxiliary troops such as signal corps quartermasters quartermaster's and sanitary troops etc by themselves are arc only the limbs of ot an army array If It they arc are not assembled they com compare compare pare with a true fighting force as a amass amass amass mass of separate arms legs and ande eyes e es would compare with a fightIng fight fight- Ing man A Again aln Just as a fighting man Iran would be useless if jf he h had d three arms and only one leg or all his arms and ancI legs but no eyes or no stomach so 50 the various army formations forma tom Lions are lacking in efficiency unless they are assembled in exactly tho the right proportion This comparison on is la not intended to be Ac humorous An army going Into battle bathe has before It the same samo conditions con con- on a gigantic and terrible scale calo that confront tho the pugilist who enters the tho ring Ills IUs s fists less jess if It his M foot feet are not quid quid to carry him hini swiftly in t td tc or to tarry him hini as ao swiftly his opponents opponent's blows blow tall fall to too to Hili f feet and fi flats fists combined ies less if IC his mis stomach i Is enough to give him his eyes do cIo not tell him i adversary Is about to do doi do other her powers are handicap haps fatally Time fhe formation that g gl e righting fighting force torce all Its limb division cIl It alone has th Ui that are the eyes the lofa intal Is s the tho hard body tho Is time the terrible f Uta ls and ancI th trains that Provide encIll If It the tie army post system displaced a divisional org orS of ot the time regular army can bev be he oven o v n though it suffers from ent eat Inferiority of or men I it main a skeleton army but 1 I a skeleton that Is articulate It It remains distributed in t Posts posta Is it i Is not a skeleton i i a simply n a scattered Jot lot i of a 2 skeleton with ing many b bo It If an emergency calls calla 11 tom 0 a the ine sudden efforts r assemblage of oC tho to do BO so will an amount of oC work and ami Yi d must makl inevitably make th the curse governmental red t bureaucrat iea bungling Deling Yet only the simple unav of the present system hJ The orders for have haye to pass from froni general genera department to other commanders commander f fn r J commanders and andi they reach the post cornin comma orders for assembling Turn luppI go through the same cou court the m movement starts at J Ii little MI detachment will haT hati by a route different other The Tho distances to fro ti E b by the tIme various units will wl hundreds of miles to t ta Their supplies will have have to ft from depots situated here bore I t everywhere When they reach the tho IJ concentration tho the only offit know know- anything about them then their own garrison or P po peg Jt Tho The officers who are aro to the Uie mass will wiil h have vo to be dra departments from front bureau government assignments York ork Washington New Orl Francisco Seattle and p ne pe hundred other places It If the army posts i syi IT dropped and the arm army i stationed In eight places Is tion as brigades with all till ti tS I Ucal proportion of infantry a artillery and other arms 1 there ther will be none of oC this me whole army could be set it tea within twenty four hours hours had cl clan groups would bo be point of concentration and arrived there they timey would w sc disruption or organization T gades would taU fall into their and ancI the division would be berea read And the time orders required to this would be just one message duplicated to the coing coring CODIng COD cor ing generals generas of ot the Ea Eastern tern I and aud Western departments aing aning an anI ing Send your division ion to i c ton The theory underlying the strength en th establishment of th then lean Ican arm army will be discussed row Copyright 1915 by J J. 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