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predicate that because the individual soldier is stupid therefore he must be less drilled or practiced in fewer movements.

It is just because he is stupid that he should be practiced in the greater number.

The very object of tactics is to enable you to handle troops on the battlefield under every emergency.

Now suppose a commander who was ignorant or had not his wits about him, should get his troops (every individual of which was an intelligent man) into a fix and did not know how to get them out. The upshot would be that each individual man grasping the difficulty and acting in his own work would get out of the scrape himself and very little