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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: may go on for weeks or months consisting of apparently separate
and incidental skirmishes, and then suddenly a whole valley
organisation may crumble away in retreat or disaster. Italy is
gnawing into the Trentino day by day, and particularly around by
her right wing. At no time I shall be surprised to see a sudden
lunge forward on that front, and hear a tale of guns and
prisoners. This will not mean that she has made a sudden attack,
but that some system of Austrian positions has collapsed under
her continual pressure.
Such briefly is the /idea/ of mountain struggle. Its
realities, I should imagine, are among the strangest and most
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