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reference to those guns to which each Company is allotted in the 
scheme of defence. 
6. That the training of all should be carried out on the basis of the 
Battery Command being the tactical unit. 
7. This leads us to the final conclusion that it is nob necessary to 
train the N.C.O’s. and men of different units together in order to obtain 
efficient work, but that it is very desirable that all officers should have 
frequent opportunities of practically carrying out the duties connected 
with the tactical working as a whole, of the command to which they 
belong. 
I have endeavoured as far as possible to avoid any suggestions of a 
radical or revolutionary nature, these seldom meet with much consider- 
ation, are generally of theoretical rather than practical value, and 
indeed as regards this question are in no way necessary. As in my 
opinion our system of Coast Defence has hitherto inclined altogether 
too much in one direction, so I am anxious now that the swing of the 
pendulum should not carry us too far in the opposite direction, but 
that our progress in the future should follow the sounder and more 
even course which is indicated by the motto of this essay— 
“IN MEDIO TUTISSIMUS IBIS.” 
