Discus the aims and objectives of teaching geography at secondary level?

When I was a teacher in the military they told me that one of the first documents prepared for a class was the course objective. But most of the schools I have been to did not bother to prepare one, and in some cases the teachers did not even know what they were supposed to teach. You may have gotten into one of those schools, since all schools seem to be losing all sense of obligation to students and parents.

But to answer your question we look at France and Russia. In one of those wars a long time ago, French arms makers invented a machine gun, apparently a very advanced design for the time, and they manufactured several million bullets for it. But France has cities with the same name on different rivers, so the guns were sent to one city and the bullets were sent to another. Russia is so big and under the Tsar nobody cared about education, so it was normal for most people to have no idea which way a neighbor city was. There were several cases of supplies put on a train and the train driver had no idea where he was going, so he just kept going.

One of the biggest complaints in military movements is inaccurate maps. Fortunately, both sides in any battle have the same problem.