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Identifier: warfareoftoday00azan (find matches)
Title: The warfare of to-day
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Azan, Paul Jean Louis, 1874- Lowell institute lectures, 1917 Coolidge, Julian Lowell, 1873-1954, tr
Subjects: Military art and science Siege warfare
Publisher: Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin co.
Contributing Library: University of Massachusetts, Boston
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Massachusetts, Boston

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atter their bombs all over the woods and fields.Thus the need of instruction for an army is para-mount over all others. On account of its national character, as well asits length, this is a war of attrition. In previouswars professional soldiers fought with their ownresources, and settled between themselves thequarrels of nations. To-day, it is the nations,with all their forces, human and material, thattake part in the struggle; they fight till one ofthe adversaries is completely exhausted. Thusattrition, which applies to both men and mate-riel, is bound to be a factor of importance indeciding the war. Attrition in men is irreparable; it takes twentyyears for a child to reach the fighting age. Itmay be estimated by comparing the total num-ber of men called to the colors at the beginningor during the course of the war, with the totalnumber of killed, permanently disabled, andcaptured. ? Attrition in materiel can be offset by greateractivity in the factories, but these factories must i8
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THE WAR OF MATERIEL—A MUNITIONS D^POT IN THE REAR OF AN ARMY

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