Excerpt from The German Army in War
In the following chapters I have tried to give briefly and in plain untechnical language an account of the origin of the German military system, and the organisation and war methods of the German army. I trust that the little book will prove interesting and useful to readers of the war news and to many of our young soldiers who are now training to meet that army in the field.
I have endeavoured to make the book a collection of facts, with only so much discussion of them as is necessary to make them clear to the reader, avoiding as far as possible any attempt at criticism. But the mere statement of these facts is enough to show that the German army is a very formidable fighting organisation. And I think it is well that this should be understood. It is a mistake to underrate an opponent. The Germans made this mistake with regard to our own gallant army. Some writers here at home appear to me to have been as much at fault in their estimates of the German army at the outset of the war.
In our case a mistake of this kind has very unfortunate results. In the first place it does an injustice to our own splendid fighting men. If the German army were an inefficient, out-of-date war machine, if it sent to the front a crowd of blundering leaders and half-hearted soldiers, there would be little credit due to those who have stood up so gloriously against its onset.
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