Excerpt from Applied Minor Tactics (Including Map Problems and the War Game): Map Reading and Map Sketching, Simplified for Beginners, Especially Adapted to the Instruction of Noncommissioned Officers and Privates in Their Duties in Campaign The most ignorant tourist easily uses the complicated maps in the guide books to find his way about; men, women and children, riding in auto mobiles, use the road maps Of the country without a thought of having acquired the knowledge of some difficult art; but as soon as the military student considers map reading, he decides he has a most difficult subject to master, and he proceeds, unconsciously, to make it difficult. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.