If that care fails, discipline can only be imperfectly maintained.

It is impossible for the soldier who endures sufferings, hardships, fatigues, who meets danger, to take only 'in proportion to the resources of the country.' He must take whatever is needful for his existence.

We cannot ask him for what is superhuman.
"The greatest kindness in war is to bring it to a speedy conclusion.

It should be allowable with that view to employ all methods save those which are absolutely objectionable ('dazu muessen alle nicht geradezu verwerfliche Mittel freistehen').

I can by no means profess agreement with the Declaration of St.Petersburg when it asserts that 'the weakening of the military forces of the enemy' is the only lawful procedure in war.