NATIONAL DEFENCE.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1
Stn,—In the article upon National Defence, published in your issue of the 9th inst., you admit that in England one of the greatest impediments to any scheme of defensive re- inforcement is the crass ignorance of even the educated classes in regard to the broad principles of the later strategy. Every one who has discussed the subject knows what it is to be met and paralysed by antediluvian misconceptions sur- viving in persons otherwise intelligent ; and it may be sug- gested that much might be done to clear away this tangle of ignorance, if the party of defence would make some attempt to educate the country by the issue of such pamphlets as would give a popular exposition of modern military science. It is quite certain that such publications would be widely read in a country permeated by the roots of the Volunteer Force.—I
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