The Coast Artillery Journal, Volume 63Coast Artillery Training Center, 1925 |
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Pagina 80 - It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair ; the event is in the hand of God.
Pagina 274 - Corps shall be to prepare plans for the national defense and for the mobilization of the military forces in time of war; to investigate and report upon all questions affecting the efficiency of the Army and its state of preparation for military operations; to render professional aid and assistance to the Secretary of War and to general officers and other superior commanders...
Pagina 508 - As has been stated, this framework is made up of three components — the Regular Army, the National Guard, and the Organized Reserves. Each of these is essential in the building of the whole army.
Pagina 274 - The duties of the War Department General Staff shall be to prepare plans for national defense and the use of the military forces for that purpose, both separately and in conjunction with the naval forces, and for the mobilization of the manhood of the Nation and its material resources in an emergency...
Pagina 556 - LAY down the axe ; fling by the spade ; Leave in its track the toiling plough ; The rifle and the bayonet-blade For arms like yours were fitter now ; And let the hands that ply the pen Quit the light task, and learn to wield The horseman's crooked brand, and rein The charger on the battle-field.
Pagina 174 - America has furnished to the world the character of Washington ! And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind.
Pagina 134 - Read and re-read,' said Napoleon, 'the eighty -eight campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene, and Frederick. Take them as your models, for it is the only means of becoming a great leader, and of mastering the secrets of the art of war.
Pagina 189 - Personally, I think that four hundred years hence the power question in England may be solved somewhat as follows: The country will be covered with rows of metallic windmills working electric motors which in their turn supply current at a very high voltage to great electric mains.
Pagina 80 - I have seen, without despondency, even for a moment, the hours which America has styled her gloomy ones ; but I have beheld no day since the commencement of hostilities, when I have thought her liberties in such imminent danger as at present.
Pagina 98 - Here's to the Blue of the wind-swept North, When we meet on the fields of France ; May the spirit of Grant be with you all As the Sons of the North advance. And here's to the Gray of the sun-kissed South, When we meet on the fields of France ; May the spirit of Lee be with you all As the Sons of the South advance. And here's to the Blue and Gray as one, When we meet on the fields of France ; May the spirit of God be with us all As the Sons of the Flag advance.