"This tale of a dream is dedicated to the "gilded Popinjays" and "hired assassins" of the British nation".
*Man, those were the days: when Imperial officers wrote with imperial good taste. I especially admire the cogent Kipling quotes.
*Note the resemblance of this effort to futurist scenarios and design probes.
http://www-cgsc.army.mil/carl/resources/csi/Swinton/Swinton.asp
*The central lesson I derive from "Duffer's Drift" is that genuine military battlefield efficiency can't be attained by anyone unless he gets killed six times. I believe this. That makes sense.
"Ars Longa, Vita Extremely Brevis," as they used to say when imperial gentlemen were taught Latin.
