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Science and the Army Officer

1924; Nature Portfolio; Volume: 113; Issue: 2838 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1038/113413a0

1476-4687

Oliver Lodge, James Jeans, Sec Reminiscences, George Quincke, Points.-C Carus- Wilson, Ramanujan Srinivasa, John Fulton, F Symington, T By, Geitel Hans, R By, William Hatchett,

Science, Research, and Medicine

THE degree to which applied science dominated the great War astonished even those who had previously predicted that, in the twentieth century, brivery and brilliant leadership would, without the aid of the laboratory, be powerless against continental armies. As a consequence of the development of new methods of warfare, and the increasing elaboration of older ones, the British officer, especially the senior officer occupying a technical post, often found himself handicapped by lack of scientific knowledge. The War is too recent for its lessons to have been forgotten entirely, and it is less surprising that the question of the education and training of the artillery and engineer officer should have come up for discussion than that it should have received the very perfunctory consideration which has been accorded to it in the recent report of a committee appointed by the late Government.