... survive, place them so that they acquireexceptional skill with weapons and in horsemanship, give them a country whichis suited to the tactics of the huntsman, the marksman, and the rider. Then,finally, ... Hobson and other crowd-theorists,blaming middle-class figures of influence for not doing their job inguiding in the right direction the easily-influenced, in this case the soldier rather than the jingo ... (). The ‘‘Officerin the Field’’ asserts that ‘‘one of the causes which has lent to thisrecklessness is the isolation of the theatre of war, and the entire absenceof any public opinion’’ (). The...