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HERE are many ways of describing an army, or an automobile, or any other thing that is too complicated to be grasped at a glance. To list the component parts is the easiest way, and the poorest. That clock, I may say, is a box enclosing a mechanism consisting of fifteen wheels, two hands, one pendulum—and you will want to interrupt me to say: "We can't remember catalogues. Try to explain what makes it tick."

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The German army is well organized in most respects. It is defectively organized in other respects. Most of its equipment is excellent, but some of it is only fair, and some of it is poor. Most of its regiments are splendid. Some are not so 3