光を放つ甲冑の耀きと、胸当て上のサーベルの音は騎兵の最後の100年間をあらわすものだ。この時代の時点で、戦場は大量の大砲と初期の振動する戦車、そして忘れてはならない蚊のような航空機に支配されることになるのだ。
The flash of gleaming armour and the clang of sabre on cuirass mark the last hundred years of the horse cavalry. Before this age is up, the battlefield will be ruled by massed artillery and the first shuddering tanks, overwatched by mosquito-like aeroplanes.
The 19th Century and early 20th Century showed numerous examples of the use of military force. Both, “might-makes-right” power plays, and emotional calls to higher ideals.