Principles of the art and science of war and their application in modern warfare . ollowing, -?• * * andw^as driven right over the Potomac into Washington. During the Continental war, in 1866, * * •• like the twoinvading armies in Bohemia, so the two foes of Austria—Prussia andItaly—on a great scale, were assailing her on a double line. In all cir-cumstances the rule must hold, that the defender in :uch a case oughtnot, except with forces superior to both, to attempt to make head againstboth attacks. The policy of retarding the advance of one enemy, andoperating in force against the other, is

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Principles of the art and science of war and their application in modern warfare . ollowing, -?• * * andw^as driven right over the Potomac into Washington. During the Continental war, in 1866, * * •• like the twoinvading armies in Bohemia, so the two foes of Austria—Prussia andItaly—on a great scale, were assailing her on a double line. In all cir-cumstances the rule must hold, that the defender in :uch a case oughtnot, except with forces superior to both, to attempt to make head againstboth attacks. The policy of retarding the advance of one enemy, andoperating in force against the other, is the only decisive mode of opera-tion. For this reason Colonel Hamley maintained, before hostilitiesbegan, that Austria should at first have taken that step which circum-stances afterwards forcfed on her, and, withdrawing all the forces dis-posable for the field, should have held only the fortresses and moun-tain passes, secure that, when once she had crushed her Germanfoe, she could always, by Verona, issue upon the Italian army in Yen-etia and drive it over the Po.. f^