A brief outline of the relation of engineering to the conduct of war and the adaptation of the principles and practices of civil engineering to military requirements. From book preface.

The miiltary policy of the United States --General duties of the military engineer and economics of military engineering -- Tools and equipment employed in military engineering -- Stream crossing -- Military roads -- Field fortification and siege operations -- Military demolitions -- Military reconnaissance, sketching and surveying -- Military sanitation -- The mobilization of material resources -- How may the engineers and contractors of America prepare to meet the military obligations of citizenship?.