X MILITARY LEGISLATION AND EVENTS IN 1862 . . XI MILITARY LEGISLATION AND EVENTS DURING 1863 XII MILITARY LEGISLATION AND EVENTS DURING 1864 . 128 XVII LESSONS OF THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR. MAPS Early Campaigns of the Revolutionary War Northern Campaigns of the Revolutionary War . Southern Campaigns of the Revolutionary War War of 1812 . War with Mexico. Campaigns in Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania Campaigns of Buell and Bragg . Sherman's March to the Sea and Hood's Retreat. The Campaign of Santiago de Cuba The Campaign of Porto Rico The Philippines The Operations in Luzon, 1898-1901 The Peking Relief Expedition, 1900 THE MILITARY UNPREPAREDNESS OF THE UNITED STATES CHAPTER I COLONIAL PERIOD N The Seven Seas, by Rudyard Kipling, there is a poem. entitled "An American," which contains the following IN stanza: "Enslaved, illogical, elate, He greets th' embarrassed Gods, nor fears To shake the iron hand of Fate Or match with Destiny for beers." These lines, unconsciously perhaps, describe to perfection. the nonchalant attitude of the average American toward the United States Army and anything pertaining to the military service. The fruit of this indifference, which has persisted from the beginning of our national career until to-daywith the exception of a spasmodic interest manifested during threatened or actual war has been reaped in the most short-sighted, blundering military policy ever pursued in modern times by a great nation of supposedly intelligent people. As a matter of fact, there has existed no real military policy in this country, in the sense of the term as understood elsewhere, and, as a result, the United States was prevented by its weakness from attaining the front rank among the Powers of the world until the autumn of 1898. Even to-day, our international influence is largely due to causes other than our own strength causes such as the existing alliances between the leading nations which confer upon the United |