Excerpt from The New Spirit of the New Army: A Message to the Service Flag Homes Our first and greatest asset is the quality of our manhood. Russia has failed, not for lack of quantity in man-power, but because of a flaw in its quality. We are perfectly right in the confidence that the traditions and cus toms and habits of a normal state of society entitle us to expect victory. But with hun dreds of thousands of men torn from the normal state of society new perils arise. Military establishments have always been the easy prey of moral vampires. Our prob lem is: How to keep our splendid one-hun dred per cent. Manhood at the one-hundred per cent. Level of efficiency P NO other nation has yet succeeded in doing that. I think we shall succeed, and mainly because of the re markable work of the Commission on Train ing Camp Activities. 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.