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Excerpt from Handbook of Military Law One of the courses which is required of all members of the Students' Army Training Corps in the colleges of the United States is a course on Military Law and Practice. This course includes three subjects: military law, international military customs, and army administration. Military law includes chiefly the procedure of courts-martial. The law relating to courts-martial is very fully expounded in the Manual for Courts-Martial. It is impossible for the present to obtain a sufficient number of copies of the Manual to supply all the members of the Students' Army Training Corps. Moreover the detail with which the subject is treated in the Manual makes the Manual less useful than it would otherwise be as a textbook for a three months' course for undergraduates. On the other hand Colonel Wambaugh's excellent little Guide to the Articles of War, in which the Articles of War are printed without any accompanying comment, does not afford the student enough material as a basis for study in a course of this length. The author, therefore, in arranging the course on military law in Harvard University has found it necessary to supply a brief textbook for the use of the members of his classes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.