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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NATIONAL DEFENCE A CIVILIANS IMPRESSION It is doubtful if any paper written by a ' mere man in the street' can be of service. If general considerations may be weighed, it can only be on the principle, too common amongst us, that sets too high a value on half-trained observation. On the other hand, experts on special work may be inclined to take too limited a view, and an all- round sketch of a civilian's impressions may have, in some measure, a truer perspective. Let us see, then, how the average civilian Volunteer looks at the necessity for national defence. First, it is striking how unanimous has been the impression that as long as we keep up a powerful fleet we may be remiss, as compared with other nations, in regard to the maintenance of numerous land forces. We are a happy-go-lucky people, anxious to give our natural love of individual independence as much scope as possible. We dislike to be ordered about. We persuade ourselves that it is not necessary we should be ' dragooned ' ourselves, if we pay fairly heavily for substitutes, who can navigate and fight our warships and secure us against invasion. We were successful at sea in the days of our grandfathers; why should we not be successful now ? This attitude of mind is, to say the least, very optimistic. Science has made great progress since the time when the last great naval battles were fought. The fleets that can steam from twenty to twenty- three knots an hour can hardly be compared with the old ' wooden walls, ' dependent on the winds. Nor can the two- and three-deckers, fitted with steam-engines of the period of the Crimean war, be compared with the fast-moving ironclads of to-day. The relative work and tactics to be got out of such machines during a war with our neighbours, similarly armed, cannot be ac..


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217111652
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 476
  • Spine Width: 24 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217111653
  • Publisher Date: 04 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 844 gr


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