Show The New Army War College and Its Real Purpose Not NoL an Actual College but a School to Co Train Officers HE neW Army Arm WM War col colW W legs wu open opened tA Pod tot for the recaption of pupils on Oil Nov Nor 1 I In Is the realisation of MI M mils long lOll cherished by b ry men ully elly construed thus now how training ruining system U II a course for comm d of the hi t army up lIt to and Including the 1 k of ot colonel ting con coni i I 1 at if the noble build In i t Ix a home hume for Cor thus thi novelty l Institution 0 I lually hope on the lII I I r gi t I 1 mods of the Ihl barracks at al the college collee will lie he housed hound I iii Ih II used by president the Hie r i made at the White While n ah ilif r I e represents so 10 novel novelL noveli that rot i L nurture HI Th I military practice I r I nen tIen n en have a n rather hasy lia h hor y of or It I 1 I anti and of at course courll It Ill la Is not a ac ar HI i idly fl c r ii KC nt it II ah 1111 i I lly In the academic nix f It 11 li Is V 1 tuned tt ned to afford n a certain ot of f mill Iv men nun an tan opportunity to 10 ton f 1 1111 1 las y study bUrly war our fn na The object Is II 1 11 not n A vi III ull lo to v a as II It I la III IIII lato tj to I Mily ilu hi It ll 1 gained t WI s1 Iii 1 i t and other military hola II to III n I PI lost Hoal ua WI Hypothetical I II I ii m ill De tee fought unit und much at nt urton I will wll i to 1111 pan game of ot which fn an excellent i ami v id la wK out strategic lc and sad I 1 1 It will be the till most mOlt Important duty dul of ofin lo to plan for he the in I ti I l War College prepare strand defense defence In this use lIe of oC eclen lin Inu warfare the tho branch of oC the thea K a v must be prepared at et all allI bIra I tI for rill any uny un x contingency In tt II use rune of or out nut with iy I y country the chief of oC staff should be beable b beable able to 10 produce i nt III t once from Crom III Its proper t I 1 plan of mm pa I fin compute complete In Inh h UK a every eyer detail The whole choma must L y r t a ia t MN AS THE TIlL Y COMPUTED C JAP fT ECI COLleGE WILL tOOK r e r i r r rr t t r II I In IWAR n i I I WAR COLLEGE BUILDINGS he be In i to move at al lute tue tI e touch of ot otAn nn nr electric button hUllan There will 11 lie be 11 III In Informal urinal formal lectures on Important situations that may lie ho snivelled au t and d n of questions relating to tn military road taking making ilia kin the Ihl budding and d of bridges transportation by land mid and by bywater byWater water supply train etc If It till Invest meat of oC a tort fort In Is contemplated om stronghold will be chosen cho n and n PI study lilli of oC Its ILl will be made mad with whit reference to lo overcoming them The rho fortunate who will be hI de detailed 11 detailed tailed to 0 study At tile the WOr college will willbe willbe willbe be carefully selected by h b hose thole who havo have havethe the In charite che Under the tho new army arrAngement the moat promising graduates of oC the garrison for tor are ate sent nt to Ut U e service Iloe to lort for cavalry a airy alry and Infantry to 10 sort Fort l orl Monroe Munroe for tor artillery and to Washington barracks barrack for tor engineering The rue be belt beet t men from th thee liege ip schools are ore then sent lent to Fort lort l ort Leavenworth to the staff college and nd the honor graduate of the staff college will ba hll sent nt to Hie he War college at al atThe The game un of ot war known In military parlance lance as ItS Is played on Oil Instead of bourda Two lutge exactly alike are placed Oat Hat on tables tableA In III adjoining rooms roomi roo mi The object Is la to lo keep tho the commanding and his hll on one eldo III o from teeing what tho ho other tilde stile IB Is I doing The Tho pieces bodies of oC troops or regiments urn arc ro of ot wood wend or porcelain and they thoy are lire over the map mop when move era art made It taken lake several I days to play pia playa a single name game nail and It la IH In absolute silence allonce with an nil occasional break braak for tor explanation or suggestion At the War colUgo college the tho campaigns of ho the the civil Will war will VIII be bo fought over again In detail For tor example tho the conditions existing n a 1 week the tho battle of Shiloh will be given on aliI a problem end and tho the students will wilt be expected to nn vor the question What Whitt thou then 7 Th War Wr college existed on paper an as a iiI fir buck back us no 1001 It won was not until the of ot 1903 1003 that tho the college took definite shale It then Ihen became belmo tie na nil It wore worl u part of or the Iho body bOlly of ot the third dl di division vision of the general mutt This rids third division meets meols from time to time as the oho War college mid and It lion liau on all such mich Blonn siona General H II for tor pre pres president II ident dent and Major Samuel Hober lIeber for tor sec see secretary rotary The Tho precise relations between the Ime general snuff and mad the War ll nr college uro reported to lo be bo n 11 lo to slue nine out of ot every ton ten In the To 10 civil lunn tho ho purpose of ur the pile War college seems to bo ho clearly doll ned It la le the Iho business of the tho collage to curtly the larger problems of military nc to devise war plans end and to lo In ho tho the practical duties of their Tho The hId State Stat does not find nd It t expedient to do Ing tog army anti and easO of C word war It depend largely n II volunteer troops It la III not mot therefore lo to train a tl captain tube tobe to be a 11 good goal captain It Is neo nee to prepare preparo him for Cor tho the increased which la Is BO so likely to o fall tall lo to his lot According to o 0 the governments goven plans plane for the of ot the War Will col ool college lego lege about filly fifty buildings will bo ho erect er ct od oil on the chosen choen sit 1111 property properly known u as the Ihl harrak 1 is b I vallon II lion a 1 point of oC h 7 SI ao river and lt ha esl C rl p 11 tJ nl near the capital About leer 1 h font v or of Ore are 10 now una Ihl I end Ind the will VIII h h a few months month The iara larg e i nf r el 81 lures tur Which Will conta centI He e rooms will be feet I in i ii r I feet teet In ht width end and J t will win I Ii Mtr It lit t I stories and wid j III h Ilia t c the lie college class t I rooms prop r I l I to lo be erected UI at tm for fro I t I h ilia quartermasters hurr ke k e numerous other has h appropriated Js I f tI r of ot the ground mi lIrI mitlon the he rI IJ of ot buildings building and ami it jN h I h 1 a sum eum considerably la tn t I x s C amount will be needed neede to 10 Im lUt Ul Ula t 1 original pone The fhe now college la Is I also aim I o to in i he scads repository for Cor the II p suet Ii tl tl 1 I military data gathered by b It the o 11 of united States elates I mi i i Irp lions Ilona The Tiro H lilT lug InS the original i 1 become became a It military p hoer r t ax 1111 1803 1303 A AI app t regular depot for Cor n mi r f 1 loos Cal there lher HH II burn I i tl hi in 1311 t lu In tin th till It n WOlf was the old United stats I under tho the floor floors of ot will i r f UI r 1 the Iho bodies of or John i nIh n a Mrs hrs Irs with the tr vh h ho Vf v w t I hanged banged In iii the Lincoln d ila tra tragedy edy When the prison IIII wa lips I down Iho the bodies bodice were remove removed to 10 0 crl beauties Tho Tim necessity tor for mi III h rn Instruction of or army i 7 evident when the tho fact IH is I tilt M II among 1118 1113 lieutenant 1 since Inot the war tar have hoV been d at al W y t Ji 1 I I having been besu i appoint i irr ii p volunteer service n H r fr r the iho ranks slid and 61 GU havins hll h I n dente from civil life T 1 L Iro |