Excerpt from An Army of the People the Constitution of an Effective Force, of Trained Citizens IN this little book I have attempted to give a detailed description of a N ational 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 popu lar history of the American Army of the People as it stands complete a few years later. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.