MILITARY SCHOOLS IN ITALY are divided into three classes.: (1) The College or preparatory schools. (2) The military academies at Turin for engineers and artillery, and at Alodena, for infantry and cavalry. (3) Semite militari complementari (schools of application). The Scuola di Guerra, the school of application for artillery and engineer officers. is at Turin. and the cavalry school is at Pinerola. The courses of instruction at the military acade mies of Turin and Modena are three years and two years respectively. There is a school for under IAlicers at Caserta. where approved non commissioned officers are educated for commis sion. In each :UM of the service fully one-third of the commissions are held by men from the ranks.
The military academies of Japan compare very favorably with the best. in Europe, being in ef fect organized. as is the army. on the German model. There are establishments devoted to mili tary education under the .Nlinister of War, in cluding the school of military music and the various schools of application. In 1902 several parties of Chinese army officers were sent by their Covernment to undergo a course of in struction at the 'Japanese .Military Academy.
AltterAav IN THE UNITED STATES is practically a university system, bringing as it does all the different branehes of military cities lion into one system and under the direct control and supervision of a body of specially qualified officers. making every part of the system effective. The rnited States Alilitary Academy at West Point, N. Y. (see MILITARY AcAmmv, UNITED
STATES), is the f0111HIIIII011 Of the entire system and is generally conceded to be unequaled in the thoroughness and comprehensiveness of its train ing. The practical education of the cadet, in its broadest sense. begins with his assignment to his regiment or corps, there being in addition an officers' .school at each military post for elemen tary instruction in theory and practice. The special service schools or schools of application are: (a) the Artillery School at Fort Va.: (b) the Engineer School of Application. Washington Barracks, 1). C.: (e) the School of Submarine Defense, Fort Totten, N. V.; (d) the School of Application for Cavalry and Field Artillery, at Fort Riley, Kan.; (e) the Army Medical School, Washington, D. C. The General Service and Staff College (q.v.) is at Fort Leav enworth, Kan.. and the War College (q.v.) at Washington Barracks, D. C. A general super vision of all the different schools enumerated above is exercised by the War College Board.
Officers' schools at military posts and the Gen eral Service and Staff College are ()lien to Na tional Guard and volunteer officers, as well as to graduates of military schools and colleges which have had Regular Army officers as instruc tors. (For other schools. see ARM y Scuios.) Consult The Military Schools of Europe (Mili tary Information Division, War Department, Washington. ISMi).