The American Secretary of War, with the sanction of course
of President Wilson, has introduced a Military Programme which will provide for a peace-time Array of 510,000 men ands Reserve of 1,250,000. It will all be based upon compulsory service. We have very little space to deal with the matter, but if we wrote at great length we could not exaggerate the importance of this move. It means that the great American Republic has recognized, or at all events is in process of recognizing, that to lay the obligation of military genie& upon every citizen Is truly democratic. The service will be of the lightest consistently with the compulsion. All young men of nineteen are to have three months' training, and afterwards to be liable to two years' military service. Apparently the two years' service will not be required except in a national crisis.
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