The question of invalidism from the Army appears to be inextricably bound up with the rather larger problem of the needs of the Army, with which, therefore, at the risk of seeming obvious, I shall try to deal very shortly.

If one may judge from the opinions of General de Gaulle, adopted largely in the training of Panzer divisions, this war differs from the last in the importance, firstly, of smaller bodies of picked men, and secondly of the continuance of production behind the lines. Thus it would now seem better to train as warriors a smaller number of eminently suitable men, while leaving others to fill those jobs of any essential kind to which they are best fitted.