The Times History of the War
The Times History of the War
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But this danger was rather in the future than in the present. Many years must elapse before Russian mobihzation could be " speeded up " to anything approach- ing that of France or Germany, and there was, therefore, so far as the generation of 1890- 1910 was concerned, an appreciable interval 110 THE TIMES HISTORY OF THE WAR.
between, the French side of the possible war and the Russian. That interval it was proposed to use for the crushing of France, whose mobiliza- tion period was two days long...er than the German, * and an army that could overwhelm France in a month or six weeks and still be fit afterwards to deal with the Russians had to be an army of high quality and training.
But if the conditions of foreign politics favoured the supporters of the quality-army, those at home told almost as much in favoior of the quantity-army. While the population had been rapidly growing, the proportion of the recruit contingent taken in annually had not increased. The " universal service " theory had become a farce in practice, since not much more than one-third of the available recruits were taken, and the others were allowed to go scot free.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
But this danger was rather in the future than in the present. Many years must elapse before Russian mobihzation could be " speeded up " to anything approach- ing that of France or Germany, and there was, therefore, so far as the generation of 1890- 1910 was concerned, an appreciable interval 110 THE TIMES HISTORY OF THE WAR.
between, the French side of the possible war and the Russian. That interval it was proposed to use for the crushing of France, whose mobiliza- tion period was two days long...er than the German, * and an army that could overwhelm France in a month or six weeks and still be fit afterwards to deal with the Russians had to be an army of high quality and training.
But if the conditions of foreign politics favoured the supporters of the quality-army, those at home told almost as much in favoior of the quantity-army. While the population had been rapidly growing, the proportion of the recruit contingent taken in annually had not increased. The " universal service " theory had become a farce in practice, since not much more than one-third of the available recruits were taken, and the others were allowed to go scot free.
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