Author: Frank Ross McCoy

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-26

Total Pages: 387

ISBN-13: 9781330412657

Excerpt from Principles of Military Training, Vol. 3 The fight between Cain and Abel was the broth of war, the control of land whether by the practical agriculturist or the peripatetic sheepman, the first and a continuing cause of war, while the chronicles of the Old Testament make the Bible the first of military works and the only one known to most of the early colonists and conquerors of America. There was the comforting and convenient authority for possessing the land and smiting their enemies hip and thigh. It must be of interest to follow military habits from the early days of our country, when self-defense was that of the individual and his nearest neighbors, to these days of the Great War, and the training of whole nations on the right lines of progressive systems, in vivid contrast to the old routine circle of the professional soldier in the barrack yard. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.