The Valor of Ignorance

ISBN: 9781440072406 出版年：2016 页码：392 Homer Lea Forgotten Books

Regular troops alone are equal to the exigencies of modern 'war, as well for defence as offence, and when a substitute is attempted, it must prove illusory and ruinous. No Militia will ever acquire the habits necessary to resist a regular force. The firmness requisite for the real business of fighting is only to be attained by constant course of discipline and service.