Arizona republican., 1913-12-14
THE MILITARY
 POLICY IF U. 5.
Major Evan NJ. Johnson, Jr., Secretary of Infantry
 Association, Complies a
 Pamphlet on Nation $ Lack of Military Platform

Believing that much good may ac- crue from straightforward discus sion of a situation which must be obvious to everyone interested in the military affairs of the nation, The Republican will undertake to present in full a pamphlet recently compiled by Major Evan NJ. John son, Jr, and issued by the United States Infantry Association, upon the broad general subject The Military Policy of the United States"
 This pamphlet is too long to pre- sent it in a single issue and it is necessary therefore to present only brief portions each day until the en- tire work is completed. It will be worth while to read the words of Major Evans as they appear each day The pamphlet opens with d foreword and thereafter at once pIunges into the real subject in hand. Major Johnson says:
 Foreword
 The data for this pamphlet is taken from Upton's Military Policy and war department publications. It is written for the purpose of show ing the average American, truths omitted from school histories, and the enormous and unnecessary loss of life and property which has at tended the prosecution of all our wars, due to lack of military policy in the United States, and with a view of convincing the reader that such policy is necessary if a recur- renee of the conditions set forth and in addition possible National disas- ter is to be avoided.
 The following quotation from an article printed in the Infantry Jour nal of September October, 1913, en- titled The Significance of Bull Run by R. M Johnston, assistant pro lessor of history, Harvard universi- ty, shows an appreciation of the conditions which resulted in the de- feat of the union army, which it is hoped will be shared by those who may read this paper
 Professor Johnston says:
 Yet with an army deliberately kept unfit to go anywhere or do anything, the Iurid unwisdom of our press, and the haste and irresponsi- bility of our masses may plunge us almost any day into a formidable conflict. We happily do not require millions of soldiers. We have shown in the present phase of our history that. as nations go, we are reluct- ant to conquer, averse to annexation. 2 Yet we have military problems of all sorts confronting us, as some of us realize and the pity of it all is that many of them would cease to be problems were we able to mobilize at short notice no greater field force than 1900 regulars, scientifically organized and commanded. As it is, something even worse than Bull Run may be our lot when we are next called on to face the military ordeal. It's responsibility will not lie at the door of our soldiers, any more than that for the first great defeat of the Civil War lay at the door of Me Dowell and the handful of gallant of ficers who tried so hard with him to achieve the impossible.
 EVAN $. JOHNSON, Jr, Major, U s. Infantry, Secretary of the Infantry Association. Unted States Army.
 While the necessity for war may be questioned, and hope entertained that the day may come when courts rather than the battlefield will de- ternine all national and international