Excerpt from The Best National System for Providing the Necessary Military Force: I to Secure the Safety of the United Kingdom on Land, II to Support the Defence of the Empire, III to Assist in Maintaining the Balance of Power in EuropeA National Military System provides both land forces and sea forces, whose ro'le in war is complementary.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.