I picked up an old pamphlet, some time ago, on Ebay, editted by Sir Michael Howard.
He wrote the last article, "V. Wellington And The British Army", and there is a passage there I liked, I don't know why:
"If the House of Commons had feared Army reform in the eighteenth century because it would increase the influence of the Crown, Wellington feared it no less in the nineteenth because it would increase the influence of the House of Commons. So long as the Army remained unreformed, it could be used as a tool neither of Royal despotism nor of political jobbery."
What comes after this passage is also of interest.
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