e desired relations. Unfortunately these
relations were not sufficiently consolidated. Whether we like it
or not it will be necessary to resort to preparations of this
kind, in order to bring a campaign rapidly to a conclusion.

"Risings provoked in time of war by political agents need to be
carefully prepared and by material means. They must break out
simultaneously with the destruction of the means of
communication; they must have a controlling head to be found
among the influential leaders, religious or political. The
Egyptian School is particularly suited to this purpose; more and
more it serves as a bond between the intellectuals of the
Mohammedan world.

"However this may be, we must be strong in order to annihilate at
one powerful swoop our enemies in the east and west. But in the
next European war it will also be necessary that the small states
should be forced to follow us or be subdued. In certain
conditions their armies and their fortified places can be rapidly
conquered or neutralized; this would probably be the case with
Belgium and Holland, so as to prevent our enemy in the west from
gaining territory which they could use as a base of operations
against our flank. In the north we have nothing to fear from
Denmark or Scandinavia, especially as in any event we shall
provide for the concentration of a strong northern army, capable
of replying to any menace from this direction. In the most
unfavorable case, Denmark might be forced by Great Britain to
abandon her neutrality; but by this time the decision would
already have been reached both on land and on sea. Our northern
army, the strength of which could be largely increased by Dutch
formations, would oppose a very active defense to any offensive
measures from this quarter.

"In the south, Switzerland forms an extremely solid bulwark, and
we can rely on her energetically defending her neutrality against
France, and thus protecting our flank.

"As was stated above, the situation with regard to the small
states on our northwestern frontier cannot be viewed in quite the
same light. This will be a vital question for us, and our aim
must be to take the offensive with a large superiority from the
first days. For this purpose it will be necessary to concentrate
a large army,