ABSTRACT
The interval of time between the summer of 1900 and the close of 1905 has been called a ‘Period of Attempted Reforms’. There may be some advantage in pausing at the end of the Balfour regime to take stock of what had actually been accomplished during those difficult post-war years. The geographical distribution of the British Army had, to some extent, changed since the last survey in 1899. As a result of Mr. John Brodrick’s costly and criticized programme of barrack building, a degree of concentration had been effected. The frequent changes in organization had had a bad effect on the Auxiliary Forces as a whole. The Militia had declined in strength since the end of the war and was not in a good state. Indeed, the Militia had changed very much since the days when it was taken from the control of the Lords Lieutenant and put under the War Office.
