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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900. Excerpt: ... THE REMAKING OF AN ARMY (continued) A.V.D. AND A.P.D. Pretoria, June 2W1. ONE realises that our army was planned for almost any purpose but that of war, chiefly when considering the operation of its minor departments. The parts fit together with deadly accuracy; there is no elasticity, no allowance for expansion, for the contingencies of friction and rough usage. It is a very elegant piece of mechanism, so long as you work it where it was made; like a toy that runs beautifully on a smooth surface but comes to grief on the carpet. Of the values and faults of these departments the Army Veterinary is typical. Working without stress it runs prettily enough; burdened with the weight of war it ceases as a coherent faculty to exist at all. When one commences in one's impertinent manner to find fault, to suggest alteration, one's suggestions are often quenched, quite apart from their futility, by the question of expense. The changes, however, which one would see in the Army Veterinary Department have at least the merit of a proposed economy. The waste in horseflesh during the South African Campaign has been little short of appalling, and for that waste the inadequacy of the A.V.D. has been largely to blame. Not that the members of that department are responsible for its failure. With the material at their disposal they have done what they could; where they failed failure was inevitable, and could easily have been foretold. That failure came of an inability to differentiate between the conditions of peace and war. In peace, the number of horses that go sick never put a strain on hospital accommodation. They can be left to get well; there is no pressing haste; drugs, nursing, doctoring are all easily available. In war, where a regiment discards its horses by the hu...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781154179798
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 68
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1154179796
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 141 gr


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