Efficiency and Empire (Classic Reprint)

Britain has received a warning to reorganise her Education, her system of Imperial Defence, and the Administration of her public affairs. At the beginning of the last century Germany received a lesson from Napoleon. She profited by experience, and in due time became a great Power, after reorganising her Education and reforming her A rmy. In the Sixties, France had two warnings. She neglected both. The Mexican War revealed the weak places in her military organisation, demonstrated the incapacity of her War Office officials, laid bare the defects of her military education, and exposed the administrative weakness of the Third Empire to unfriendly rivals. The opportunity for reorganising the French A rmy, which occurred between the withdrawal of French troops from Mexico in the early part of 1867, was neglected.
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