------ Sambre (Nov. 1-11, 1918) 21, 65, 67
Armistice Day (Nov. 11, 1918) 65, 169

Mesopotamia

Battle of Ramadie (Sept. 27-29, 1917) 64
------ Bagdadieh (March 26, 1918) 64-65

North Russia

Archangel Province (Aug.-Sept. 1918) 66-67

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PUBLICATIONS CITED IN THE LECTURES

"Field Service Regulations," Parts I. and II.

"Infantry Training," Parts I. and II.

CLERY, Major-General Sir C. F., K.C.B.:
"Minor Tactics."

CREASY, Sir Edward:
"Fifteen Decisive Battles at the World."

FOCH, Marechal Ferdinand:
"Principles of War."

FRENCH OF YPRES, Field-Marshal Earl, K.P.:
"1914."

GRANT, General Ulysses S., United States Army:
"Memoirs."

HAIG OF BEMERSYDE, Field-Marshal Earl, K.T.:
"Sir D. Haig's Dispatches."

HAKING, Lieut.-General Sir R. C. B., G.B.E.:
"Staff Bides, etc."

HAMLEY, General Sir E. B., K.C.B.:
"Operations of War."

HENDERSON, Colonel G. F. R., C.B.:
"Stonewall Jackson."
"The Science of War."

NAPIER, Sir William Francis Patrick, K.C.B.;
"History of the Peninsular War."

"OLE LUK-OIE." _See_ SWINTON.

SWINTON, Major-General E. D., C.B.:
"The Green Curve."

TAYLOR, General R., Confederate States Army:
"Destruction and Reconstruction."

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LECTURES ON LAND WARFARE

THE ART OF WARFARE

"The Art of War, like every other art, possesses its theory, its
principles; otherwise, it would not be an art."--MARSHAL FOCH.

The Art of War, like any other art, is based upon certain fixed
principles, and there is no short cut which hurries the student to his
goal. The long and laborious line of study is the only safe way, and
there are many pitfalls to be avoided on the road. One of these
pitfalls is dug by those who maintain, whenever a new war breaks out,
that all previous warlike knowledge must be thrown on the scrap-heap
and attention paid only to the problems of the hour. Another is the
alluring trap that Warfare is "merely a matter of common sense"; and a
third is the oft-expressed idea that knowledge is required of the
General, and that compliance with orders is sufficient for the
Subaltern Officer.

KNOWLEDGE OF PRINCIPLES ESSENTIAL.--With regard to the first of these
difficulties, the opinions of recognised authorities on the Art of
Warfare may be consulted. "The cardinal principles on which the ar