Excerpt from General Foch: An Appreciation The subject-matter of the teaching of Foch at the Ecole de Guerre is technical and not easily appreciable or interesting for the general public. Yet it is impossible to pass over this aspect of his life without some sort Of notice. For he was the great teacher who, more than any man in the French Army, created the mode of thought under which its generals and Staff entered the present war; his portrait would be wholly inade quate unless this side Of the man were brought out. But ...
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Excerpt from General Foch: An Appreciation The subject-matter of the teaching of Foch at the Ecole de Guerre is technical and not easily appreciable or interesting for the general public. Yet it is impossible to pass over this aspect of his life without some sort Of notice. For he was the great teacher who, more than any man in the French Army, created the mode of thought under which its generals and Staff entered the present war; his portrait would be wholly inade quate unless this side Of the man were brought out. But there is no subject studied by groups of specialists in our present civilization that re quires more prolonged effort and on which more depends than that Of the military art in its higher branches. This being so, the reader must be asked to follow, though only in very broad out line, a statement of this somewhat special ques tion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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