PISKOR Tadeusz - THE TRIBAL SYSTEM IN THE ORGANIZATION OF HIGHER military units. Warsaw [1920].

PISKOR Tadeusz [PUŁK. SZTABU GENER,] THE TRIBAL SYSTEM IN THE ORGANIZATION OF WYŻSZYCH JEDNOSTEK WOJSKOWY.EDITION NEW EXTENDED AND UPDATED. Warsaw [1920].GŁÓWNA KSIĘGARNIA WOJSKOWA.

Format:13.5x19.5cm. Pages:37. ormat:13,5x19,5cm. Pages:37.

Excerpt: "...The World War was the beginning of a great historical upheaval that is taking place before our eyes; the process of change is underway, its paths and final forms are drawn indistinctly and elusively on the horizon of history; we lack a historical perspective when evaluating today's events, occurring rapidly one after another. It seems that the war was, as it were, only a stimulus that liberated social forces from their resting state by means of a heavy and bloody operation, after which states cannot return to equilibrium. The old forms are cracking; the greatest military potencies have collapsed, new ones are rising on their ruins; feverish and various attempts are being made to put the foundations of the new state and its armed arm, the army, on new foundations, or to rebuild old things. The whole world is stepping forward, often in the dark, wandering, looking for new ways out of the critical situation created by several years of war, a great and terrible war. In its effects. Europe finds itself under the burden of multi-million dollar debts, with a devastation of material consumption such as no war or turmoil in history has ever caused before. The staffs placed in these conditions must work strenuously and creatively to meet their essential task-organizing the defense of the state and its independence...."