THE UNITED STATES ARMY AND ORGANIZED MILITIA TO-DAY.'

BY FREDERIC LOUIS HUIDEKOPER.

NOTE. In the last number of this magazine Mr. Huidekoper's article, "The Truth concerning, the United States Army," was published with the notes as originally prepared by him, but which were necessarily omitted as published by the United Press Association. The following article is a study along the same lines and forms, with Mr. Huidekoper's first paper, a distinctly important contribution to contemporary literature on the military policy of the United States. This essay was published in the New York Times Sunday, February 19, 1911, and as a syndicated article in a considerable number of other important newspapers throughout the country. As published, however, the footnotes did not appear and these, as in the other case, compose such a valuable part of the work, particularly for the military student, that the INFANTRY JOURNAL counts itself fortunate to be able to present thus the essay in its complete form.-EDITOR.

F LATE YEARS Congress has appropriated large amounts

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among the navies of the world3 and our naval gunners have not their equal. The Army has not fared so well and its efficiency is considerably below that of the Navy. The United States ought either to have an army which for its size is as well organized and equipped as any other army in the world, or else we ought to do away with the military establishment altogether." Fortifications have been authorized and constructed, but there are not enough men to man them, nor has Congress provided all the necessary accessories, without which the guns will be of no more value in

'Copyright, 1911, by Frederic Louis Huidekoper.

2Statement made in the House of Representatives on January 17, 1911, by Hon. James A. Tawney of Minnesota, Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations. Vide Congressional Record for January 17, 1911, p. 1049. 3 Brassey's Naval Annual for 1910, pp. 69 to 78.

4 Derived from statement issued to the press by the office of the Secretary of the Navy, January 4, 1911, particularly relative to the scores made by the Maryland and Delaware, as compared with the Gunlayers' Tests in the British Navy during 1909, quoted by Brassey, Naval Annual for 1910, pp. 419-428.

5 Mr. Tawney's statement. Congressional Record for January 17, 1911, p. 1049.

"INFANTRY JOURNAL for July, 1910, p. 127. Compare also statements made by President (then Secretary of War) Taft in the introduction to Mr. Frederic L. Huidekoper's article "Is the United States prepared for War?"-North American Review Publishing Co., May, 1907. This pamphlet was a reprint of Mr. Huidekoper's article which originally appeared in the North American Review for February and March, 1906.