TYRŠOVA IDEA NÁRODNÍ ARMÁDY. II. Vydáni Pocténo první cenou Svazu is. Důstojnictva
TYRŠ'S IDEA OF THE NATIONAL ARMY II. Edition Honored with the first prize of the Union of Military Officers

Author(s): František A. Soukup
Subject(s): Military history, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: CEEOL Digital Reproductions / Collections
Keywords: Czech military tradition; Czechoslovak Army;
Summary/Abstract: With the regaining of independence, the Czechoslovak nation found itself face to face with a new question for it—the military question. It was a truly new question. The old military glory of Czech arms had disappeared with Hussiteism. The camps faced the whole of Europe, scattered the German crowds ten times over, and with a victorious chalice they passed from the Baltic Sea to Nuremberg, from the Vistula to the Danube. What followed was either mere mercenaryism or service to foreign interests. The Habsburgs had only one idea: to destroy this glory, to destroy this education, to suppress this language, which was the first to bring to the astonished world some of the noblest expressions of modern thought. The nation lost interest in the army, which was the dynasty’s means of suppressing it. It was therefore not in its interest for it to flourish. The nation’s attitude towards it was—opposition. Only when the warlike Marseillaise resounded throughout the world did a resurrection occur in our country. After the first awakeners, who only dreamed of the old glory of the nation, new ones came who already dared to think of their own army. The movement took concrete forms within the limits of the general struggle against absolutism and for democracy; it found expression in the national guards, which were to replace the imperial armies. – PUBLISHED in 1936 by ORBIS, PRAGUE.

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