Hudson Maxim, inventor of smokeless powders and brother of the machine-gun maker Hiram Maxim, wrote this book in 1915 to persuade American leaders that the country lay open to invasion. He attacks pacifist preaching and the hope of replacing war with law, criticises the Monroe Doctrine as unbacked by force, and describes modern weapons and the needs of the army and navy.
A key text of the preparedness movement before American entry into the First World War. Download the free EPUB.