A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard

Capitolo 38

through ignoring the moral ones and political factors that determine the
weight and the distribution of military strengths. The soldier, till now as him
glances behind to armies to everybody, only it looks at the numbers from that those
armies can be enlisted, and it pay scarce respect to the political one,
you condition moral, social, and economic that can do devastation of armies,
you call them where they doesn't exist, or transfers them to unexpected
staircases in the military equilibrium. Russia appeared to the strategist as a
enormous reservoir of food for dust that would employ time to mobilize,
but it almost shows him irresistible if time was given. Both these
the calculations were shown fallacious, and still less they were it expectation that
the reservoir would turn him. The first misjudgments disarranged the German
plain, the second those of the Allies, while the third upsetting the minds
of the world.

The burst of war found Russia with a peace-strength of on a
million men, a war-strength of four millionses and reserves that were
not limited from his/her population but from his/her ability for transport,
organization and production of ammunition. Its Prussian frontiers were
protected by any natural defenses, but not even Prussia. Nature, it
you/he/she has been said, doesn't foresee Prussia;  Prussia is the job of men
hands. Neither Nature had foreseen Russia, and the hands of men had not done on
the deficiency. Mechanic wants to say you/he/she had made up for to the natural defects of
The frontier of Prussia but not those of the Russian;  and the defense of Russia
mainly consisted in distance, mud and lack of communications. The
value of these varied, clearly, with the seasons and the
motor-transports that it made fine to of the extension for the lack of platforms,
tells favour of German science and industry, and against the
face snores back. Separately from the absence of natural defenses, the
Russian frontier had artificially been drawn as to make its Polish
province an indefensible salient, although it properly organized him