Excerpt from Leonard Wood: Prophet of Preparedness We are as defenceless with the one as with the other. When I sailed away, America was in the throes Of a great campaign for adequate naval and military protection: I returned to find much Of the agitation still in the stage of animated speech. The larger task Of providing an adequate and trained citizenry - the real defensive bulwark of a nation - remained unaccomplished. Amid the ruins Of devastated communities and in maimed and broken humanity I had seen the tragic toll that war exacts. 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.