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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: questions of adaptability that my tour of the front has made very
urgent in my mind. A spiteful German American writer has said
that the British would rather kill twenty thousand of their men
than break one general. Even a grain of truth in such a remark
is a very valid reasoning for lengthening one's estimate of the
duration of the war.
There can be no doubt that the Western allies are playing a
winning game upon the western front, and that this is the front
of decision now. It is not in doubt that they are beating the
Germans and shoving them back. The uncertain factor is the rate
at which they are shoving them back. If they can presently get
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