Future Warfare.

Opunake Times, Volume VI, Issue 255, 16 February 1897, Page 3

Future Warfare.

Viscount Wolseley, Commander-in-chief of the British army, in a speech recently delivered at Edinburgh said that in future warfare would be difficult from the fact that there would be in the field not mere armies, but the„ whole manhood of the nations engaged. The shock would be sudden and tremendous, and the effect so • great that no land war fought with regular armies could last long. One of the most hopeful aspects connected with the wars yet to come was that • they must be short. After noting the immediate effect of recent wars in Europe, he said it was curious to note _ how quickly the the military training given to all classes by the system of universal service solidified German unity, and made a nation of what had been before a mere group of scattered provinces, each jealous of the other. But the most striking illustration of how this system could bring together the several strands that made up the of national life was to be found in Italy. It had converted the many Italian principalities and states of 60 years ago, each with its peculiar idiosyncrasies, into the consolidated Italy of to-day, with its army and powerful fleet. As a sincere lover of peace he warned his hearers against those who would have them neglect the arts of war, and who would prevent them from making those preparations for war which were the best and most effective guarantees of peace.