Excerpt from Leadership and Military Training In response to the generous appreciation that has been shown, especially for the chapters of "Fundamentals" on Leadership and Training, I have rewritten and amplified them, particularly that on training, which is necessarily quite new. Originally written largely with a view to helping arouse an appreciation of the country's need for universal training, in the existing emergency I now consider only how to make our present training efficient, basing my observations on past experiences and those in cantonment to-day. There is nothing here of the drill manuals, nor of the technic of the art of war. It is rather an analysis of the psychology of soldiering, getting at the spirit of it, trying to point out how to make good in leadership, how to avoid making a failure. It should be invaluable to beginners ambitious to improve, of much value to older officers who perhaps have never given much thought to this phase of the question of training, and furnish helpful material for discussion at officers' conferences and for instruction in non-commissioned officers' schools. 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.