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Germany and the Next War

CHAPTER VII
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The artillery has a strength of 24 field artillery regiments and 1 mounted regiment of artillery, and numbers 193 field and 8 mounted batteries.

Besides this there are 27 mountain batteries and 10 regiments of garrison artillery in 98 companies.
Lastly, there are 6 engineer regiments, including a telegraph regiment and an airship battalion.

The Gendarmerie contains 28,000 men.
On a war footing the strength of the field army is 775,000.

Some 70,000 men are enrolled in other formations of the first and second line.

The militia is some 390,000 strong.


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