Chapter III: Preface: v

OUR GREAT OBSESSION xiii
I DANGEROUS PREACHMENTS 1
II CAN LAW BE SUBSTITUTED FOR WAR? 22
III OUR INCONSISTENT MONROE DOCTRINE 56
IV MODERN METHODS AND MACHINERY OF WAR 68
V THE NEEDS OF OUR ARMY (With Letter from General
Leonard Wood) 113
VI THE NEEDS OF OUR NAVY 141
VII LANGUAGE OF THE BIG GUNS 181
VIII AËRIAL WARFARE 203
IX OUR ARMAMENTS NOT A BURDEN 222
X EGO-FANATIC GOOD INTENTIONS AND THEIR RELATION TO
NATIONAL DEFENSE 235
XI A DANGEROUS CRIMINAL CLASS? 247
XII THE GOOD AND EVIL OF PEACE AND OF WAR 265
WHAT SHALL THE END BE? 306
INDEX 309

ILLUSTRATIONS

The Vast Territory that Our Inflated Monroe Doctrine Obligates
Us to Defend 60
The Heart of America 76
Relative Numerical Strength of Field Artillery 104
Portrait of General Leonard Wood, U. S. A. 114
Number of Officers and Enlisted Men of U. S. Regular Army 118
Strength of Regular Armies on Peace Footing 124
Portrait of Admiral Austin M. Knight, U. S. N. 150
Strategic Spheres of Vital Importance in the Pacific 160
Battleship Strength of the Nations 168
How New York Could Be Bombarded from a Position off Rockaway
Beach Beyond the Range of Our Forts 188
Opposing Fleets in Action _between_ 197 and 198
Some Annual United States Expenditures 226
Enormous Resources of the Warring Nations 232
Casualties of Peace and War Compared 296