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CHAPTER IV
CONSTITUTION OF INVADING FORCE
TRANSPORT AND SUPPLY
"Articles of provision are not to be trifled with or left to chance, and there is nothing more clear than that the subsistence of the troops must be certain upon the proposed service, or the service must be relinquished."—The Duke of Wellington.
"The chief necessity in war is that supplies should be abundant and quickly delivered."General Bronsart von Schellendorff."It consequently follows that armies cannot exist for any time, at any rate, in the field without uninternipted communication with home."—Idem.
"The whole question is one of commissariat—that of commissariat one of transport."—The Duke of Wellington.
In considering the possibility of an invasion of England, I will accept the conditions under which Lord Roberts believes that it will be undertaken.[1]
- ↑ See Lord Roberts's speeches in the House of Lords on November 23, 1908; April 3, 1911; and February 20, 1912.
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