Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1908 — THE RISE AND FALL OF ARMIES. [ARTICLE]

THE RISE AND FALL OF ARMIES.

The Latest to Accompli ah Something Holds the World’s Attention. Just at present the Japanese army is the cynosure of all military eyes. It is the latest army to do something, and for that reason, if for no other, holds the world’s attention. Interest rather than study is what it provokes now. The study will <x>me later, .when we know more than we do today of the quality of its work and can parcel out how much of the Japanese success was due to superior fighting power and how much to overwhelming preponderance of numbers on its side. There is no reflection on the courage of an army in its winning by strategy. Only ’ a brave army can be trusted by a strategist. At to concentrating superior numbers on thefoe, that is what organization is for. So far as we now know, the ITapanese organization admirably served its purpose, but the actual value of the Japanese army as a whole depends for ascertainment on fuller information than we now possess. We have heard little or nothing from the vanquished. We need the Russian account before we can make up our minds as to the degree of facility with which the victors achieved their successes.—Boston Transcript.