Science and the New Army

Abstract

IT requires some courage to offer any opposition to the chorus of approval which has greeted the suggestion that a proportion of officers endowed with the scientific spirit should be included in the General Staff, but I venture to think that it is by no means so easy to give effect to this proposal as some correspondents in NATURE seem to suppose. No doubt it would be delightful if we could have Staff officers who knew all about everything, but in actual practice the man who does useful work in the world is a specialist in one particular subject or in one particular branch of work.