WHAT IS STRATEGY?"
[BY AN OFFICER OF HIGH RINK,]
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5TH, 1918.
STANDARDIZED AIRCRAFT.
GREAT ALLIED SCHEME-
During the latter part of March, under The British public is generally aur posed to accept most of its facts and the agis of the British Engineering many of its opinions from the daily Standards Committee, an inter-Allied Press, which, as someone remarked, is a conference on aircraft standardization, welcome member of every British breakmore specially in regard to materials, was fast-table, and it must Innestly he con Cavil Engineers, the delegates being wel opened in London, at the Institution of fessed that this weakness, if weakness icomed officially by Mr. Winston Chur- can be called, is shared by the present chill
writer.
carried out by the committee as a war
BATTLE STORIES FROM THE THE STRANGE ROAD TO THE
WEST FRONT.
THE STICKERS:
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TRENCHES.
UY HAMILTON BYTE
I call it "the rond" because all roads
to the front are the same:
up and down for miles ahead of you, To begin with, being French roads, they are straight, Yon see them rauning like the one in Mr. Nevinson's pictures of the front pe
To be perfectly frank," said a young. Hospital, I am very glad to have some wounded officer who lay in a London one to talk to. When I came off the boat I did a foolish thing. As you see I've been pretty well messed-up by a shell. Well, I thought it would vex British Army sees to that. Steam rollers people terribly if they saw me in this from all parts of England meet upon Noxt, they are hard and snooth. The condition, so I thought it would be better them. You pass now a group of turbaned to stay in London rather then go North Indians working at them, after that a other day and worrying over me. Of band of smiling, sturdy Chinese. You course, the thing washed out at once, for Nubians, natives of encour a they all canfe down in a body and stayed
Senegal and Ceylon. in London for a bit. I thought I could. Their dress supplies in the grey northern put up enough exmonlage to make them winter landscape welcome touches of think 1. was lightly damaged and fend a must have gone Enat you would them off till I got up to scratch again. y must have been ransacked for read Now they've gone back I feel rather lost.
On all roads to the front are the same
Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice, after welcom- There are, however, limits to one's ing the delegates on behalf of the com- poofimilating such instruction, mittee and the Institution of Civil and mine were abruptly reached when not Engineers, briefly explained that the and ago 1 nppened to read in a loading standardization of the components of air article the didactie assertion that the whole art of war had changed, so com.raft and aircraft engines was being where they would be visiting me every pletely since a certain day in August 1914; that the military knowledge and experience previously acquired was to longer of appreciable value; and that this condition applied not only to tactics but -to-strategy also
In the ordinary way the sting of this assertion would probably have been relieved the strenuous routine of a
by soldier's way work, but, as it happened, leisure had just been thrust upon mo, and the disagreeable impression could not be worked off that perhaps, much of one's life had been wasted in trying to follow Napoleon's precept that one should read and read again the campaigns of various military heroes, and try to follow their example and
practice It was useless to attempt to argue with oneself that Nelson's tactics at the battle of the Nile has been censured by con temporary writers, and that Wellington's operations were the object of much criticism. One remembered that after the South African war it has been emphati enlly stated that the sword and bayonet had taken their place in the museum with steel helmets and breastplates, and would in future be regarded as curiosities and not as weapons of war. There had also been a strong Press campaign against the short riflo its short bayonet.
and But these recollections brought no real consolation for habit reasserted itself and was difficult to believe that a lead ing the difficulty, also arose in that
article could be mistaken.
measure for the Department of Aircraft Production of the Ministry of Munitions, and that the necessary alterations in the committee's procedure to deal with this important development in their activities bad besp arranged for he thought to
Mr Churchill said he thought very little had in reality been lost, and, in some respects; much had been gained,
***If you want me to tell you anything
menders.
sreel helmet lends a quality of sternness
oond for the baths, with towels on their shoulders, perhaps with picks and spades, ar maybe in full marching order, with all their goods and chattels slung around lien on their way to or from the line. The same games of football being played in fields alongside, the same well-turned out young officers taking exercise on well. groomed horses, the same fast staff cars speeding on errands that admit of no dolny
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PELMANISM
The Little Grey Books.”
during the war than the little grey books," "slack, and stagnating during my Army life No books have achieved greater popularity The Course us prevented me becoming
as they are affectionately called."
this most virulent danger, I may add. “It inculcates a cleur, thorough, courageous
My inconte
Soldiers pora over them-in the trenches; sailors con them in their brief intervals of method of playing the game of Life-- leisure in the Grand Fleet; business mon and admitably suited to the English tempera- women consult them at every possible opponent, and should prove moral salvation to unity; lawyers, doctors, and students declare many a business man. Success, too would them to be aver-ready source of help,
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follow-but I consider this as secondary." stimulation, and encouragement.
The other letter is from a laty of indepen- dont means was felt that, at the age of fifty, her mind was becoming less active n
“Though leading a huay inherited, not earned." My object in study- ing Pelman methods was not, therefore, in "any way a professional one, but simply to improve my memory and mental capacity, If you do not know the "little grey books," | "which, at the age of fifty, were, I felt, if you are not a Felmumist, you should hastenbecoming dull and cesty. I have found the to make up for lost time.
"Nobody who has not studied these books," says an ardent Pelmanist, "can conceive the immeasurable benefits resulting from them."
In fact, everybody is studying these principles of Peimanism are so interestingly wonderful little grey books" in which the explained: "Pehnanism the tang) ordinary new force in modern life -- the telling phrase. "cardinal factor of success," to quote Truk's
by not entering upon a general scheme about fighting I shall have to think backings of motor-lorries the same horse- of standardization until sufficient experi- for months back to the show in Novemo whose kindly English faces the ence had been necumulated to enable suck standardization to reach its maximum bor. This lot I've got is my zerothe same bodies of infantry, perhaps effect. A too rigid standardization in the Blighty and the funny thing about it early stages of development undoubtedly is that it came right bang in the middle tended to hamper progress and design of an extraordinary quiet time. We were Considering the gloomy views taken by hanging on to a bit of the line, not fight- some people regarding the war, he felting much, in fact note in a consolidat that such people could have no real ging like blazes and wiring consoline. knowledge or appreciation of the importing our position generally. We sometics ance and power of aircraft German had the excitement of a German raid or resources were incomparably less than getting mixed up with the Germans when those of the Allies, who had the whole patrolling No Man's Land, but that's world to draw on, resources remorselessly, it was certainly out of the ordinary In a way, these von, and by developing these pretty much in the day's work and nothing within the Allies power to dictate a encounters are a measure of the compara military decision to their opponents.
And then, bordering all roads to the Mr. F. G. Diffin, the Chairman of the live abilities of our men and the German front are identical settlements of wooden American Commission, Colonel Dorand soldiers. Fritz cannot touch our fellows or tin buts; identical beadquarters of the chief of the French Delegation, and at any time, least of all in these encountbis, that, or the other unit, lying back "A single one of them would be cheap to
Giuseppe Grassi, the Italian ters when personal and individual initia a little, with perhaps an attempt at Delegation, express of the lion tive counts most. Our boys always come garden, villages whose only inhabitants As a direct consequense of them I since
me at a hundred pounds," declares a solicitor, cordially to co-operate in this work of out on top and usually bring in a Ger- seem to be British soldiers, for whose standardization waren waluty say that my own men were the finest inen notices such as nized to be of the greatest value to pro France, but then I suppose most fevidently a favourite dish), tell how they doubled and trebled their
man or so just to prove the fact I often benefit the cottage windows display step in promotion," writes a Lieut.-Colonel,
Eggs and Chips
Many clerks, shop assistants, and salesmen Sir William Weir, Director-General of officers have the same opinion of their Pale Ale," "Washing Done Here," comes as the result of a few weeks studyi
duction
troublesome doubts kept recurring as to Aircraft Production, said he had come to lot. the exact meaning of the word strategy, the conclusion that the best results would for evidently if strategy-modern strategy be achieved by carrying out standardiza was really & new art since 1914, all vious definitions and practe mustele null and void.
pretion
committees
under the direct agis and respon sibility of the Engineering Standards Committee, as that body possessed It would be of no avail, then, to turn wealth of experience in the domain of to the musty aphorisms of Clausewitz standardization generally for information, and, besides, he was a The conference has, it is andersicod German. Jomini, who was a Swiss, was been eminently successful, and it has been equally out of court. Bennal. Colin and moreover, decided to recommend that per Derreongaix were certainly Frenchmen, inanent, authoritative but they were professionals and of the instituted in. Great Britain, Canada, pro-1914 school, and the same applied to Hamley, Torey and other British authors Since 1914 when the public begun really to take an interest in war, the word military operations, great and smell, the
had been applied to so many a definition of its modern moaning would evidently present con- siderable difficulty
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THE MEN WHO STICK IT.
who are living in the ditches over there There are times when most fellows cannot help getting sick of it all--the mud, the discomfort, the uncertainty. I take it that I'm pretty average among officers with about two years of scrapping comfort of it get too much for me--I Sometimes the longing for home and the want to have my feet on the fender before
sometimes more ambitious efforts like this which I saw "Compare our prices; everything reasonable." they were in peace, tidy and comfortable, Way back these villages are just what Suddenly you notice that they and the landscape Lave altered. Trees no longer shade the road. No trees are to be seen, only their stumps or blackened skeletons.
Course not only most interesting in itself but calculated to give a mental stimulus and keenness and alertness to one's minti "which is just what most people feel the "need of at iny agen
It would easily be possible to quote several hundred letters exhibiting different phases.. of the intellectual value of Pelmanism to men and women of all ages (up to 70) and alt stationa
Moreover, they find it a truly fascinating study. "I am genuinely sorry the course has finished. I have found it so absorbingly interesting as well as profitable." These are the exnot words used by students of the Felman Course.
of the Felman Course. Tradesmen toll of "record turnover" and 100 per cent, and 200 per cent, increase in profits. The Intest hatch of reports from Pelman students (including men and women of all occupations in life) show that less than one per cent, not one
Truth has lately made another report apon hundred-failed to gain substantial
the progress of Pelmaniam amongat varions advantages from the Felman Course.
classes, and confesses it would be impossible A to name a business, profession, or vocation
France, Italy, and the United States a cheery fire, talk to my mother, and feel mounds, Tangles of barbed wire, plouges And all at the price of a half-hour or so an which there were not hundreds of Polman
respectively, in order to maintain con tinuity, of action and carry forward in the most efficient manner possible the commenced, the Engineering Standards work of co-ordination so auspiciously Committee, for the time being, acting as the distributing centre of this permanent international organization.
that there is nothing facing me in the morning but a quiet time. When those moods came on to me, I used to get out trench to talk to my men. of my funk-hole and stroll along the to my, Hullo, Soanso. How goes
I used simply and invariably the reply was indomitably cheery, I would give our prize jester & chance, an opening to chaff me. He from my round with the feeling that I always played up. I always came back was an ungrateful beast, that I wasn't worthy of the inen. I had charge of
The soil in rank and soar. Weeds and There are no more cultivated fields. grass cover it. It is mil holes, and
for renpers twisted pitifully into useless shapes of iron, wheels sticking out of rubbish benps make desolation eloquent, In place of tidy, comfortable villages of a wall here there a fragment of are piles of brick or broken stone, part church, ruin savage and complete.
Paising through such a scene I saw on board the name of a village I once Why, this was that village. Was knew. With a tback I said to myself. is the right word.
Our Army sign-posts are abundant and
One had sead, for instance, in papers of the fine strategy of some unit during a raid on the enemy's trenches, When, however, the shipping and rail and of the strategical importance of Way trains and other transport necessary capturing some butte or farm. If this to lift and move a mere million of men und med et egy one could readily are taken into consideration, and also the understand that Cabinets and Coun
and munitions when they are there, considering it, but these hardly scerned it does not require a very vivid imaging matters with which they ought to den!- tion to realise that the problem of
There
getting was the story, too, of the young those must considerably sailors and soldiers who were direussing as to where the army is to get.
affect the decision the qualifications of a officer, when one of them suddenly, asked distinguished But does he know
much about strategy 7" Of course rejoined another promptly, why don't
does, you know that he killed two men with his fists in Egypt."
cils would quickly be overwhelined in foon Portation services to keep them in I don't think the men ever realised plain: Every place is labelled in large
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what they did for me. They simply played the game naturally without any pretending think my men liked me; at any rate, I've had more kindness from them under the quiet unpleasant in a theme so bloody-facedas war, conditiong of the trenches than I've ever conjecture, expectation, and surmise" had from anyone except, perhaps, my cannot be admitted in matters of this mother. And it never varied, this kind- is technical opinion that should speak the mess and consideration; it was always nature, and in regard to getting there it lust word of advice in a War Council the same
ready willingness to help General Forrest, however, not
students
day for a few weeks! It sounds too good to be true; but there are thousands of letters to prove that it is absolutely true. There is Pelmen; 60 Admirals and Generals and over Army and Navy officers are very "keen on not a class, not a business or trade or profes90,000 other officers are studying the Course, sion in which Polmanism has not proved itse as well as thousands of rank and fle. A a wonderful help to success. That is to say large number of readers of leading journals a means of increasing efficiency and develop-have taken it, and have already prosted by it ing "braininess" to such a degree that prin income and position.
motion and a bigger salary follow as surely An opportunity now occurs for those ag night follows day
readers who have not yet made the acquaint- ance of the little grey books to rectify that omission.
Wenham House, Bloomsbury Street, London, By writing to the Pelman Institute, 10,
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Well back from the line we are warned letters. Notice-boards are numerous. of the
Women are particularly keen on Pelman * Precautionary Gas Zonem; it has proved zach an enormous help to Nearer the announcements rend Zone." Then, nearer still Cast of this thom describe it as "the best investment I
Alert
them in getting on in business. Many of board respirators must be worn in the
ready
ever made an tance from the line warning is also given position. At a certain dis-
that steel helmets must be put on. front becomes more lively. You sou men As evening draws in the road to the
except value them highly 1 There they meal. You see men strolling after their to mind the story of the defeated prize the value of time! He got there fust" were, living and working under condi day a work, as fit as fresh air and good
who said to have clearly demands careful computation as downfall to the fact that hascribed hit to the see required to initings and com- of all that can be done to make things fond and thum, and cheerful because tione nothing short of damnable-in spite food regular, healthful occupation hit hard and kept on doing to; and plete an operation, and also close calcala better in the mud and slash, seldom dry they are fit. In the hut settlements lights though, perhaps, emborlying some of the tion as to what the other side can and of clothing, under shell-fire, gas, machine begin to twinkle. They radiate sugges. now discredited doctrines of the nine may undertake in the interval. It gun nie, every damn thing to lower their tions of well-earned, well-nourished re teenth century, bitting hard did not requires, further, adequate preparation spirits; and they never wavered for a seeri altogether a subicet for prolonged for the stroke-preparation of food, of moment not a single moment. discussion by a War Cabinet, nor could guns, of ammunition, of aircraft, of Remember this, I am not handing out reinforcements, of hospitals, of roads and
This train of thought naturally brought there, but got there "fat" Daly got What could one do for men like that with mess tins fetching their evening fully occupied with business, social, or house. can be studied anywhere and at any time
He knew
pose.
ruined city like Arras made upon me at Very different the impression that a
domesticity which reigned, especially at this hour, when men went home to dinner and children begged for one more game or story. So much quiet happiness destroyed! The jagged walls and shells of houses open to the gaze strike a note of almost intolerable sadness.
it be accepted as a satisfactory definition always, and of the thousand requisites bouquetg to niy chaps exclusively. From nightfall. I think of all the pleasant of all that modern strategy implies.
What, then, is modern strategy 1 to get and keep an army in the field. It now occurred to me that the American And, above all, secrecy as to the abjective General Forrest, one of the few not pro- is necessary, or the enemy may be first in fessionally trained soldiers who attained the field. high distinction in the American Civil War, when asked to explain the reason of his success, replied: Well, I gets there fust with the most men."
These again, are matters on which a War Cabinet before making its decisions must take the opinion of its military advisers, for they are not subjects in Here, at last, was something free from regard to which those who are not techni the taint of professionalism, and was cally competent can speak with authority. further a definite statement of fast from
To estimate the possibility of moving, the mouth of a successful leader. True, perhaps, a million men by rail and road he was speaking of success in a campaign to a
a certain
what I've heard from other officers of the thinking sort my case is pretty general along the line. You have to think of all that long line, stretching to hundreds of miles, with millions of British soldiers along it and I'll bet that there's not an officer who doesn't think exactly the sams of his men as I do of mine.
THE HOME FRONT.
Yet one soon forgets it, watching the Verey lights and trellia fireworks going up from the German trenches, and skim
hold matters that the intelleetaal side hasnt home, in the office, at lunch, in the tram. been partly or wholly submerged; successful There is men in the commercial world whose enter leisure to devote to self-culture Army prises have heretofore left them too little
boting "tean, difficult or tiresome about it. You will find the study
mense and life-long benefit. Remember,
source of real pleasure as well as of:
officers who find that the routine of a military
“ Míru and Memory” will cos
I cost you nothing, life invites intellectual stagnation-these find and with it you will receive also a free copy that the Felman Course offers them a stair described as "an amazing kcument," full of of Truth's famous Roport, which has been way up to the higher things of life
the most absording interesting facts about Here are two letters of great interest. Pekanism, and containing many letters from Tho first is from an Army student, who people who have benefited by it. Both books SAYS:
are free of cost.
ming long swiftly to a fire and food What Newspapers say.
Letters from prior to 1914, but; even so, the statement no easy take locality in a given time is were not so serious, when I think of some North-Western engine drawing War
PELMAN STUDENTS Abriefsdection from kundreds of Press comments A Rise Already :
a suitable definition of
train holds us up at a level erossing.
in Saint Pol crying Dylee Mycel. Department trucks made in England! After that it seems natural to hear a boy.
covered the road to the front's chief For you must by this time have dis- characteristic. It is far more English than French
"I should be inclined to laugh, if it seemed not unworthy of further con with its transport, requires fifty or sixty admit that the people at home have back people at home and compare them with Even sideration as
& Division of some 20,000 men, the men at the front. I am ready to strategy.
General Forrest's first principle was three Divisions occupies about fifty miles our supplies, but there are certain railway trains, and an Army Corps of edus up admirably with turning out evidently to get there. But where? of road when marching. The Apparently to the place where he could inflict most harm on the enemy, and Forrest not only got there fust but did it would say. These folk, are inclined to Lastly it will be observed that General sections of the folk at home who appear to have got the wind up, as my fellows where to do so would be most advan with the most men. This is a most grouss about the shortage of food I take tageous to his side
modern requirement, and one which is it there's definite shortage and to certainly seemed problem, quite worthy of consideration every War Cabinet and Supreme Council. a very modern apparently occupying the attention of
fancy they are faced with starvation, folks at home. The men in the trenches by any War Cabinet or Supreme War To have got there fux may be of There are some again, who think the have never let their folks down, and, if Council and if one may judge from the much assistance as regards the attainment Germans are going to break through our you ask me, I don't think they ever will. various opinions that have from me
of to numerical superiority, but while the line sometime soon, that there's going to tanio in publicly expressed as to the computation as to the numbers required be such a Frightful burst up that the war and is a problem of
to wake up and maintain the most
is going to finish quite on the wrong side.
main objectives of British strategies evidently with the soldiers, the pro- These folk have never lost the scare any concentration if he perpetually
As
a great statesman have remarked to
esting, but where is the decisive poun Does modern strategy lie in getting plank them in a safe place where they comes to nothing, like Verdun or Ypres,
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But it's up to the folks at home to see that the simple soldier is not worried with home affairs. He won't fight with infinite difficulty.
is reported to vision of the men is for the Ministers who feeling that the Germans are invincible, thinking that his wife and kids are distinguished general will decide whether they are forthcoming that they can do whatever they make starving at the conclusion of a lectura on the If not, the enemy will either got there up their minds to importance of concentration of effort, at
Take it that the Germans do get up, the decisive paint, This is very inter
or may get there later with "most men, nel
neither of which is a desir. I wish I could take some of these big offensive and take what is almost Like the Shakespearean
177 |able alternativo.za
people with the sinking stomachs and a moral certainty that is washen out, panges for a 1 reply
General Forrest, however, inde a point
thers fust with the most men and i could watch my chaps sticking it. They The Germans won't have done anything of getting there. This getting there is does, for these seem to be the problems sive for one thing, and they would feel dono something to crush the last remnants keeping on doing it? Apparently it wouldn't worry about any German offen- to hart the Allies, but they will have obviously the first practical consideration, with which every nation is now mainly ashamed at their grousing about food for of the spirits of the German people as it will be useless, to fix on a decisive concerned. If this is the case, then the another, I'm not denying that the Ger they'll never stand it. Mind you, I'm point unless the armies can reach it. To practice of strategy has not changed since mans may come back at us in great weight not anticipating a revolution in Ger do so may, indeed, be far from easy and 1914, and the only alteration is that some and give as a tough time for a bit, bat many dating the war. You have to re- there may be many cases when complete of the means of getting there are different I've seen the Germans over two years; member that the bulk of the German unanimity as to the decisive point has they are more modern. Esgs remain the and I've seen the British soldier for the males aro under ariay discipline; it will beca upset by consideration of the pro
of the pro-same as ever, but large fast steamships. same time. It will certainly be a tough get the souvent these men get out of The Daily Chrontele _____ › blems of
getting there
railways, motors, and
keep them pinned till the fighting stopa Armies,
aircraft Tre and
sepecially large modern innovations.
time for us in the trenches, but I haven't armies, require a great
deal of
Victory now, as was the case half. the slightest fear that our men will break uniform the moment they are released there, and cannot be moved as easily as century ago when General Forrest gaired I know them too well for that, And what from the fear of shooting, by court- flags on a map. This, perhaps, is not his successes, will, in fact, probably corne sort of a time do you think it's going to martial, well, then look out for squalls, alware understood, and a story is told of to the action that can get there first be for the Germans Pi All that's a long way from this mea un able man of business who was firmly with the most men," and "
*** hit hard and When you boil, the whole situation up of mine. It was a chance 5.9 shell in Kut would be relieved by Australian, to think therefore, that the writer of that out is not the staying power of the fight occasion. A few bones broken, a convinced that the British force, besieged keen on doing so, and one may venture down to its essence, the thing that comes that did it just as I was having seme tea the sort of thing that happens ou divisione who were marching across the leading article may have been mistaken.** ing man; it is the staying power of the few ponctures, general bust-up, but desert from Egypt to Mesopotamis
At any rate I have consoled myself by thinking 80
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More Confident and Hopeful
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