 | Robert Walsh - 1832 - 638 páginas
...and complicated ; that it demands much previous study ; and that the possession of it, in its most improved and perfect state, is always of great moment...this purpose an academy, where a regular course of instruc496 West Point Academy. [June, tion is given, is an obvious expedient, which different nations... | |
 | Robert Marion La Follette - 1904 - 490 páginas
...comprehensive and complicated; that it demands much previous study; and that the possession of it in its most improved and perfect state, is always of great moment to the security of a nation." From these considerations spring the raison d'etre of the military school; and it is well to bear in... | |
 | Henry Norman, Henry Chalmers Roberts - 1903 - 732 páginas
...comprehensive and complicated, and that the possession of it in THE MOUNTAIN BATTERY 512 513 the most improved and perfect state is always of. great moment to the security of a nation." Many of the West Point graduates have fought in two great wars. Allusion must also be made to Colonel... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services - 1968 - 1224 páginas
...stated: "The art of war demands much previous study, and * * * knowledge of that art * * • in its most improved and perfect state is always of great moment to the security of a nation * * *. For this purpose an academy where a regular course of Instruction Is given Is an expedient which... | |
 | 1230 páginas
...comprehensive and complicated, that it demands much previous study, and that the possession of it in its most improved and perfect state is always of great moment to the security of a nation. 1 The Act of March 16, 1802, ch. 9, §§26 and 27, 2 Stat. 132, 137 (1802), recognized the need for... | |
 | 1848 - 1326 páginas
...lomprehensive and complicated; that it demands much previous tidy, and that the possession of it in its most improved and perfect state is always of great moment to the security of a nation." I The glorious campaigns of our army in Mexico are replete with Qraluabie instruction on this point.... | |
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Whatever argument may be drawn from particular examples superficially viewed, a thorough examination of the subject will evince that the art of war is at once comprehensive and complicated, that it demands much previous study, and that the possession... 
