No one interested in Army reorganisation should miss Dr. Conan
Doyle's admirable paper on "Some Military Lessons of the War" in the October Corithill. The first and greatest lesson of all is "that there must be no more leaving of the Army to the professional soldier and to the offici4 but that the general public must recognise that the defence of the Empire is not the business of a single warrior caste, but of every able-bodied citizen.' Another is to eliminate the useless soldiers and increase the pay of the useful ones, for as Dr. Doyle pertinently asks, "if a man is not a dead shot with a rifle, what is the use of carrying him seven thousand miles in order to place him in the firing line?" It is in regard to mounted troops, however, that the chief reforms must be carried out. The Army of the future, Dr. Doyle urges, must be drawn from a higher class than at present, and better paid—" we must insure that instead of the recruiting-sergeant seeking the man, the man must seek the recruiting-sergeant."
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