An Army of the People

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    			"We must depend in every time of national
			peril, in the future as in the past, not upon a
			standing army, nor yet upon a reserve army, but
			upon a citizenry trained and accustomed to
			arms. It will be right enough, right American
			policy based upon our accustomed principles
			and practices, to provide a system by which
			every citizen who will volunteer for the training
			may be made familiar with the use of modern
			arms, the rudiments of drill and maneuver, and
			the maintenance and sanitation of camps. We
			should encourage such training and make it a
			means of discipline which our young men will
			learn to value."
					(From the President's Message,
						December 8th, 1914.)

PREFACE
In this little book I have attempted to give a detailed description of a National Military System for the United States. I
trust that this Military System will be found to meet the requirements of adequate military strength, under forms that
are in full harmony with American political traditions and ideals.

In order to avoid a monotonous treatment of the many details of military organization in the form of a technical 
prospectus, I have attempted to present a graphic picture of the completed structure. For this purpose I have 
adopted the fiction that Congress is to pass The National Defense Act in the near future, and that I am simply 
writing a popular history of the American Army of the People as it stands complete a few years later.
The Author.
Fort Mills, Corregidor, P. I.
February 10, 1915.

Contents

CHAPTER I. Public Opinion and the National Defense
CHAPTER II. The Swiss Military System
CHAPTER III. The American System
CHAPTER IV. The Great Enrollment
CHAPTER V. The Call for Officers
CHAPTER VI. The War Department at Work
CHAPTER VII. The Volunteer Army—General Orders No. 1
CHAPTER VIII. Among the Volunteers—Extracts from Lieutenant Burr's Diary
CHAPTER IX. Preparing for Camp—Lieutenant Burr's Diary Continued
CHAPTER X. The Volunteers in Camp—Further Extracts from Lieutenant Burr's Diary
CHAPTER XI. The Results of the First Summer — Some Secrets of Success
CHAPTER XII. The Winter's Work and the New Enrollment — The Final Organization
CHAPTER XIII. The National Volunteer Army To-day (1921)
CHAPTER XIV. At Last—An American Military Policy

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