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Show OUR REGULAR i ARMY. In the reorganization of the United States army after the World War, many new ideas were adopted in the light of experience gained during that struggle. The most important of these was the planning of an organization organi-zation capable of creating a war-time army built around the skeleton of the peace-time force. Details of this war-time organization organiza-tion are studied continually by the War Plans division, which has provided provid-ed for the handling of large bodies of men without the delays and confusion con-fusion heretofore experienced when national emergencies have arisen. ) The country is divided into nine corps areas, the commanders of which in time of war have charge of mobilization mo-bilization of all troops raised within their respective districts. The peacetime peace-time strength is thus capable of being be-ing rapidly expanded into an army of millions with little change in the present pres-ent plan of organization. After the Revolutionary war the army was cut to 700 men, after the war of 1812 to 8000, and after the Civil war t0 25,000. After the Spanish-American war the authorized strength was 100,000-, but this figure was never reached except during the Mexican border trouble. Since 1920 the authorized strength has been 280,-000, 280,-000, but it has been limited by lack of appropriations to approximately 118,000 men, or less than one for each 1000 of population. While it is the sincere hope of all right-thinking persons that its employment em-ployment in warfare may not again be neecssary, it is gratifying to know : that our army is now organized along ; the most modern and effective lines, and trained to an efficiency uneqaul-led uneqaul-led by any body of fighting men in j the world. |
