Bisbee daily review., 1915-07-27
MILITARY POLICY FOR UNCLE SAM.

a new policy Of national defense That policy is now being carefully worked out by the secretary of war in collaboration with the experts the general army stan and the college already prepared in its general outlines It is not inspired by spirit of mtar- ism, nor intended a. deliberate measure of defense against any particular nation It is extension of present military system rather than the creation of one fundamentally new. It aims at military organi- zaton which will be in harmony with American tradt. tons and ideals. but suscepubleo easy adaptation ,o any situation the nation is likely to face
 "ln the past" says Secretary Garrison, the policy the United States has been utter military su- piness' That is a drastic criticism but probably de served. will come, in spite of the most pa cidc intentons-eyen in pursuance of pacific and humanitarian ideals. The Spanish war for example In that war our military system showed it's futlgy When we declared war we were of course unprepared. Our standing army wasn't large enough to free the Cubans had trained reserve to call on, either regular army graduates or militiamen We depended as we have always done on volunteers And see what happened:
 We had difficulty in getting men to enlist We never do We raised 223235 volunteers and only 32OoO of them reached Cuba Porto Rico the Philippines until the war was over The rest were de-
 
 where from a few months up to two years They suf ered far from disease than their comrades the front did from the fighting.
 "The one thing this is proving above an else" says Secretary Garrison. .is that in emergency ma ton rely and rely solely its trained men The untraned men don't count They are merely an unorganized mob, and have show all when put in the field against trained troops To point to the men the United States a sproof that are prepared defend ourselves like pointing to the lumber in the forests if a calls for ships"
 At present have regular army consisting of 47oc officers and S7OOO men, state militia organizations agcrogatng S323 officers and 1l9OS7 men, making full compliment of about 2lOOOO in both branches. But that of course, doesn't mean that we have any such force available in case of need
 Of the regular army which must be the backbone of our military defense IS 56O officers and men beone to coast artillery and are stationary troops being in theory at always their posts. There are Is44S officers and in the stan, technical and non combaant branches of the army, including recruits and those engaged in recruiting That leaves, for mobile force only some 294o officers and 5145O This is the largest force that nation of lOOOOoOOO people would have immediately available in case of emergency And we could count, in practice that many for actual fighting to say nothing of the difficulty of biizing them qucky from the various army posts where they are sH stationed for political rather than strategic
 The national guard would require considerable train ling if it were mustered into service and by means all the members could be counted on for enlistment
 The new plan calls for raising the regular army to total 100000 officers and and the state militia To 27OOOO Under more thorough system of militia training and more direct responsibility for actual ser vice. that would the country force of more than 100000 men available for any contingency
 That would not be our sole dependence, either It takes larger armies fight modern battles. phe war department working out plan that will give us more respectable reserve army than present one of sixteen men. The idea is to the army, in time of peace as training school out soldiers much faster than at present Terms of enlistment are to be shorter It is somewhat like the system by which Prussia built up her army after Napoleon had restricted her regular military forces to 53ooO She kept the remainder at 53oOO-but trained 5sOOo soldiers every years
 The plan is estimated, will cost about SlHo00oo0 a year instead of s1o1ooOooo available for military purposes The troops will be divided follows: There will be seven divisions 10000 oach-one in tho Philippines one in the Hawaiian Islands one in the Panama canal and in the United States prop er The home troops will be distributed equally in New England a separate Eastern division, division in the South and in West.
 The adoption of such policy will depend on the pub lie support it receives. As Secretary Garrison says, "It is a matter about which decent American can afford say that and has opinion"
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