Industrial mobilization is a new feature of modern warfare.
Reiniger knew of what he spoke. As a member of General Black Jack Pershing's staff, he had seen the truth of his words borne out during the First World War. It was no accident that Russia had dropped out the war early and fallen to the Bolsheviks. Having only begun to industrialize in the 1890s, she could not supply enough guns and munitions to her armies to resist the onslaught of the better-equipped Germans. So well balanced were the other combatants that Germany found it necessary to engage in submarine warfare to check the flow of American arms to England.