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“It was not because they knew how to fight; it was because they meant to stay there till they died.”
Frontispiece
THE INVASION
OF AMERICA
EXORABLEMATHEMATICS OF WAR
BY
JULIUS W. MULLER
Author of “The A. B. C. of Preparedness.”![Image unavailable: [image of the colophon unavailable.]](https://oldbook.b-cdn.net/kitaplar/6/pg52038-h/images/colophon.png)
NEW YORK
E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY
681 Fifth Avenue
1916
Copyright, 1915
By E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY
PREFACE
In January, 1915, Mr. G. T. Viskniskki, manager of The WheelerSyndicate, asked me: “Assuming that an enemy landed an army on theAmerican coast, what could we actually do with our actual presentresources used to their fullest possible extent?”
This story was written as the answer.
I hesitated a long time before I did it. I feared and fear still thedangers to which the possession of military power drives Nations, andwhich are particularly great in the case of a Republic. The obviousdanger that a Nation like ours if powerfully armed may be too easilyimpelled to war, is great enough. But still more grave is the danger ofa deep and fatal change in our National spirit, our ideals and ourattitudes toward the world outside of our own borders.
Therefore when I did write the story I did it with no unworthy design,and not for the sake of taking advantage of the popular interest in thesubject.
The story was written without any idea of suggesting that any Nation orgroup of Nations may mean to attack us. It was written with no desire to“scare” the people of the United States into giving thought to the armyand navy. I should hold it a sad reflection on our country to assumethat it must be aroused by terror or hatred into setting its house inorder.
I beg my readers to accept the story in this spirit. There are eightwords, uttered by one of the greatest of simple men. They are: “Withmalice toward none, with charity toward all.” Let that spirit dominatewhatever this Nation may do for military Preparedness, and there will ben