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THE FIELD ARTILLERY JOURNAL This is the merest outline of this subject and is compiled from various hand-books, training regulations, ordnance field service bulletins, treatises on theory of recoil, design of recoil systems and gun carriages and from excellent information given me by Captain R. C. Montgomery, F. A. An exhaustive study of the whole subject of theory and design of recoil mechanisms and gun carriages is recommended to those artillerymen who wish to understand the tools of their trade and take part in the developments of the future. 508
COMPARISONS, AGAIN BY CAPTAIN GEORGE P. WINTON, F.A. IT IS not unusual to encounter the assertion that soldiers suffer from a peculiar mental state known as the military mind. This condition or point of view is a favorite target for civilians writing on military subjects. Generally their arguments come to this: that officers steeped in the traditions of the Army and schooled in its thought are incapable of proper judgment in the very elements of the profession—arms and the use of weapons. Instances are given of the British Generals' insistence on the use of shrapnel against entrenched troops, of their reluctance in using tanks, of their repeated use of the same type of offensive which had time after time proved inadequate and cruelly costly in casualties. Probably there is a certain amount of truth in the contention that there is stubborness in the mental attitude of some officers on the questions that vitally concern the Service. Tractor motor power for artillery is a case in point. Discussion of the question is difficult, and comparison of animal and mechanical motive power is not easy, for the reason that proponents and opponents of each type have different conceptions of the abilities and limitations of each kind. It is not necessarily the military mind at work; but a general desire to see the Army follow no unwise policy. However, without forgetting the fine traditions and magnificent achievements of horse-drawn artillery in the past, many officers are convinced that the motor artillery will be responsible for the achievements in the future. The "next war," that strange conflict, that dark time for which the army exists, is in the future. Its place and its nature are unknown and it is only in the light of experience in past wars and by observing the rate of invention in weapons that preparation can be made for it. Generalities are of little value in this preparation, yet many things can be stated only in general terms. One of these is the commonplace, "we live in a motor age." Though wholly agreeing in this, the writer must confess that he is no motor expert and that the ideas he has were forced on him by the pressure of events that he experienced with his battery in the late war. This particular battery was organized after the outbreak of the war largely from recruits, yet with a considerable number of non-coms from the old Regular Army. After a short period of training the battery was sent to France as a unit of the Artillery of the 3rd Division, served throughout the campaigns in this division and went with it to Germany as part of the occupation forces, where it underwent 509
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CONTENTS No. 5 The First Gun on Pin
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THE FIELD ARTILLERY JOURNAL VOL. XV
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GUNS ON THE MOUNTAIN Some years bef
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GUNS ON THE MOUNTAIN The sun was sh
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THE THIRD LADDER WAS EIGHTY FEET HI
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Page 21 and 22: A FABLE BY LIEUTENANT J. L. CHAMBER
Page 23 and 24: A FABLE "Now, where are you located
Page 25 and 26: WITH A JAPANESE ARTILLERY REGIMENT
Page 27 and 28: RECRUIT FOOT-DRILL A BATTALION BARR
Page 33 and 34: DRUMBEATS to America as a playmate
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Page 37 and 38: USE OF SIGNAL CORPS TRAINING MANUAL
Page 49 and 50: REPLACEMENT OF ANIMALS IN CAMPAIGN
Page 55 and 56: METHODS OF FIRE DIRECTION The batte
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Page 63 and 64: RECOIL SYSTEMS OUTLINE OF RECOIL ME
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