March 17 1865 In the first the author subjects the reorganisation of the Prussian army to the critique of military science. Its main fault he finds in the fact that the reorganisation plan "whilst in appearance reverting to the original concept of universal conscription, which cannot... function without a large army-reserve in the form of a Landwehr, ... in fact executes an about-turn in the direction of the Franco-Austrian cadre-system". The second section sharply criticises the bourgeois opposition's handling of the military question. The author comes to the conclusion:
The International Workingmen's Association, Marx on Engels' pamphlet The Prussian Military Question and the German Workers' Party