Science of War: A Collection of Essays and Lectures 1891-1903 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Science of War: A Collection of Essays and Lectures 1891-1903<br><br>For some years before his death it had been Colonel Henderson''s intention to make a collection of his occasional papers and to publish them in book form in the hope that they might be of service to the profession he loved so well.<br><br>Unfortunately he never found time to carry this intention into effect; and consequently in the absence of the master~ hand the duty of selection has been entrusted to me.<br><br>In the years covered by these pages 1891-1903 the world learned much of war. It is therefore probable that something of what was written in 1891 would not have been written in 1903; it is even possible that in some respects the war in the Far East would have affected the opinions formed in South Africa. Nevertheless I have found so much food for re?ection in each one of these papers that I have not hesitated to include even the very earliest of them; for in these earlier writings is to be found the germ at least of nearly all the military thought of to-day.<br><br>Similarly the text-books referred to are not those now in use. For unless tactical text-books were constantly to change they would soon cease to be of any value whatever. The im portance of these books as the foundation but the foundation only of a military education is as great now as ever it was.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.