h army is of four months. A first practice
period of six months followed by fresh practice periods of a month each
in two subsequent years or by four practice periods of a fortnight each
in four successive years are in the proposals here sketched assumed to
be sufficient. If they were proved inadequate I believe the right plan
of supplementing them would be rather by adding to the number and
duration of the manoeuvre practices of the subsequent years than by
prolonging the first period of continuous training.

The following table shows the cost of two years' service calculated on
the same bases as have been assumed above. Two years' service would mean
an army with the colours not of 200,000 but of 390,000 men. This would
require double the number of officers and sergeants, and the annual
estimates for personnel would be L34,000,000, and the total Army
Estimates L41,000,000. There would also be a very great extra
expenditure upon barracks.

Estimate of Annual Cost for Two Years' Service.

13,650 officers at L500 a year L6,825,000

27,300 sergeants at L100 2,730,000

Pension for sergeants' annual class
of 27,300, decreasing by 2-1/2 per
cent., gives after twenty-five years
L12,403; at L52 a year pension
is 644,956

390,000 privates at L45 a year 17,550,000

Third year mounted troops, 20,000
at L60 1,200,000

First-class reserve 997,000

Training supplementary officers and
sergeants 500,000
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Carry forward L30,446,956

Brought forward L30,446,956

Colonial troops 3,500,000
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Total personnel L33,946,956

_Materiel_, allowing for extra
numbers 5,000,000

Staff and administration, allowing
for extra numbers 2,000,000
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L40,946,956
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XIX.

ONE ARMY NOT TWO

The training provided in the scheme which I have outlined could be
facilitated at comparatively small cost by the adopti