Errata slip inserted. Inscribed: "Greater love than this has no man - that he gives one of his favorite books to a friend. But I acknowledge to a great pleasure in presenting this little brochure to my dear friend [McCleane]. I know of no one whose opinion I more highly cherish; and I trust his [ ] dissertations will convince him that what we need in our army is a better general staff and less G'O...Jan 15 1929." Inscribed: "Herbert White, Capt. 11th Cavalry, Sept. 1906."