Abbott, Dr. Lyman, opinions of war, 52-53. Aërial bomb: few advantages, many disadvantages of, 205-11. Aërial Warfare, Chapter VIII, 203. Aëronautical Society, first annual banquet of, 16. Aëroplane, served to stimulate development of balloon, 204; imperfections of first, 204; advantages over Zeppelin, 214; less expensive than Zeppelin, 214; French and German, ordered by U. S., 216-17; foreign countries possessing, 218-19; indispensable for location of masked batteries, 219. Air-craft, chief use of, 213; the eyes of both army and navy, 219; a necessity in present-day warfare, 219-20; lack of, in America, 220-21. _Alabama_, the, 193. Alexander the Great, 90. Alva, Duke of, undertook to kill entire population of Netherlands, 239. American and British manufacturing works, 76. Arbitration, international, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 38, 39, 42, 46, 306. Armaments, a safeguard against war, 6, 7, 8, 9. a small burden in proportion to burden of luxuries, 226; benefits of, 228; added employment of labor in construction of, decreases individual taxation, 231. Armor-plate, introduction of, 181; increase in thickness of, 184; inferior to the gun, 184; sufficiency of, dependent upon insufficiency of gun to which it is opposed, 186; improvements in, 189. Army, our, strength of, in numbers, 100, 117, 118; lack of artillery and training in, 102; ignorance of people as to proper equipment of, 103, 115; lack of system in, 120; shortage of officers of, 122, 123; personnel of our regular, 126; total enlisted strength of, 126, 127; mobile strength of, 127; injustice done officers of, 146; a standing, one of the strongest fortifications, 294. Attila, 79. Automatic magazine-rifle, its effectiveness over old methods of warfare, 86, 87.