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FRIDAY, JULY 20j 1917.
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PROFESSOR Or WAR
OF OXFORD
WRITES TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
OXFORD UNIVERSITY NOW HAS
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OF WAR
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BY LOWELL MELLETT
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Oxford, Eng., June 30. (By mail)
Today in his study at Oxford Uni
versity ' the only Professor of War
boasted by any university in the
world, gave to the United Press for
its readers in America, a scries of
talks on war. ,
The professor is Spencer Wilkinson,
listed as professor of military history
known to students of war everywhere.
No other school has the course of
study which he directs. Among the
books for which he is best known is
"The Brain of an Army," which is
credited with causing the British army
to adopt the general staff as part of
its organization, the American army
later following suit.
In the days when Lord Roberts was
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the head of the army, the Oxford
schoolmaster was one of his valued
advisors. "Lord Roberts was always
glad to listen to anything Spencer
Wilkinson had to say," according fc
Field Marshal Nicholson, who was a
member of "Little Bob's" staff.
The request by the United Press
for an interview resulted from seeing
the reception given Prof. Wilkinson
at the British front a short time ajo,
on the occasion of his first visit there
since the war began. Had he worn
the red stripes of the general staff
and decorations by the dozen, his wel
come could not "nave been warmer.
His tall vigorous figure was to bo
seen passing portals forbidden to oth
er guests; his gray-bearded head list
ening to things others were not told.
"Oh, the Professor," the officers
smiled in explanation; " he knows!
,Some of the armyheads learned war
from him; , some of them aro still
learning from him."
It occurred to mo to gq and do
likewise. The professor was quite will
ing to talk and willing to reveal many
of war's secrets the sort of secrets
everybody ought to know. In the
stillness of Oxford, the special still
ness that has followed giving up all
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war, he explained with great exact
ness some of his views on the busi
ness now engaging all the energy cf
the world. The Professor of War
did not glorify war, any more than
the great surgeon glorifies disease;
He simply urged his belief that when
a nation is compelled to fight it should
fight as mtclligently as possible.
He talked about Grant and Lincoln
and about the relation of the bullet
to the soldier's soul. '
He told why it 'is more imrortant
for the commander to have cnaracter
than to have genius.
He mentioned Napoleon, Prince Ho-
henlohe and the private in the ranks.
All these things in the light of
America's entry and the things Amer
ica should do. , v
And he consented that the inter-
vew thus given should be made into a
series of articles for American read
ers. The first of thess, uiwiu: his
name follows:
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there is no other way of mastering
the secrets of war. In other words "a
knowledge of the high arts of war
can be obtained only by studying the
history of great campaigns and by
experience." In an army that has
passed through a long period of peace,
experience is necessarily lackincr: a
knowledge of war is possessed only
by those who have studied it in the
way Napoleon recommended. Such a
student was the late Admiral Mahan
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(By Spencer Wilkinson, Professor of
Military History, Oxford Univers
ity.) London, July 5. (By Mail)
(United Press) In my judgment the
important matters for a nation going
into war are these: First of. all, the
statesmen and tho people should have
a true conception of tho nature of
war and of the character of the par
ticular war they are taking up. Oth
erwise the leading cannot be right.
The supremo leader is always the
statesman and in a democratic coun
try the people must understand and
sympathize with the statesman. If
ho sees too far ahead they won't follow
and if the popular ideas on the sub
ject of war are not true the greatest
leader may be crippled. In the mil
itary sphere the first thing is the
choice of a commander and his assist
ants. When raising an army the vital
matter is the choice and education of
the officers. In the training of troops
all soldiers will say the thing to aim
at is discipline and the best means of
giving it, providing the officers have
been well chosen and rightly taught,
is to teach tho soldiers to shoot and
to march. "In war," said Napoleon,
writing to his brother Joseph, "the
men are nothing. One man is every
thing. At the end of his career Na
poleon dictated a pamphlet which ho
called Notes on the Art of War, the
purpose of which was to explain to
governments and nations about to go
to war how to set about it. Ho said
"the principles of the art of war are
those which puidrd the great captains
of the past Alexander, Hannibal,
Caesar, Gustavus, Adolphus, Turcnne,
Prince F.tigene and Frederick the
Great." Reviewing the campaigns of
these commanders Napoleon pointed
out that on all the vital points the
practice of all of them was the same
He then reviewed his own campaigns
and concluded by saying that "you
should make your war as they made it
and model yourself upon them," for
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