Therefore, in order to get a clear and complete account of the war, it seemed wiser to compile a brief report of all the actions of the troops and to treat successively the mobilization, military operations, and civil administra tion and its policy, which the military authorities could execute with the cordial and efficacious cooperation of the civil personnel, called into the colonies after the first months of the war. This publication is, therefore, a summary of the official actions during the italo-turkish War.