"The enemy, no more willing to be shot than was his opponent, was rarely seen, only fleetingly if at all."

"....most of our textbooks and commentaries on leadership and the mastery of the moral problem in battle are written b…"

"War must always start with imperfect instruments."

"A few of them fire their pieces. At first they do so almost timidly, as if fearing a rebuke for wasting ammunition wh…"

"We are reluctant to admit that essentially war is the business of killing, though that is the simplest truth in the b…"

"The rifleman in training is usually under close observation and the chief pressure upon him is to give satisfaction t…"

"Undue emphasis on conservation is as great a danger to fire power as is an excess expenditure of ammunition."

"The first effect of fire is to dissolve all appearances of order."

"The familiar and always popular warnings against the dangers of a growth of militarism among our people are raised an…"

"Truly then, it is killing men with kindness not to insist upon physical standards during training which will give the…"