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WRONG TYPE OF ARMY?
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HEN people talk ago the Western. Powers about future war had an advantage in num- fare, most of them bers over the Germans. are apt to think mainly of the atom bomb and the hydrogen bomb. They are in danger of forgetting other
menaces.
%
This new
immensely long
Armoured forces have fast tank supported by There we remain, Armic And what an not "had their day"-be- motorised Infantry and must get out of this rut if toll it is! .cause, In the real sense, artillery.
they are to have any important Influence in the future-and If the division in confined to they have not yet been
avoid being paralysed by air a single road, this means that, at Now they are greatly in- tried.
In the second, the tank attack.
the customary spacing, it would ferior in numbers to the Such anatement may would swallow the older
stretch out some 200 miles. Russians, and are bound to cause astonishment in view arms, and become
power might-be- the achieved in two ways--by fresh
The best chance of delivering remain so, whatever they of the epoch-making per- round-partner of the acro- developments in tank design a decisive blow lles in tho હત.
formance
And of the
by a now panzer plane.
organisational sudden, concentration of à mass divisions
design of armoured forces. of lanks at a weak spot. that Guderian On the other hand, they developed and trained the become all-armoured,
The mobile divisions would Since armoured forces were are better able than the way they shattered
with the first introduced into war their bulky coil that even when it But each division forms such Russians to develop forces style urmies at the start of armoured
old- artillery on belt propelled more convinced exponents have
is colled up mountings, and of a now
a always insisted that their value room to concentrate many tank→ close there is not
their greater industrial and German
type, because of World War II. But the smaller number of more skilled essentially depended
on their fangs in one rector. Infantry: carried as "ank- being employed in swarms-te they be concentrated quickly.
Nor can technical resources.
panzer divisions marines" in armoured vehicles. swamp the defence." not really were armoured forces. Nor were the BO-
Western Europe, Southern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, India, South-East Asla-every part of the vast land mass that still lies out side the "Iron Curtain" might be overrun and con- quered without the A-bomb or the H-bomb being used by the invader, or being effective in stopping him.
The Governments and their expert advisers realise this. That is why they are striving to build up armies
tactical and
uir forces Another revolution in adequate to
hok up such warfare on land might come overland invasion.
in various ways, but the clearest possibility lies in- another big bound forward in the power of armoured forces.
SPEARHEAD
If they did this before the Russians did or could, they would have a much better chance than looks likely at present of being able
to nullify the Red Army's superiority in size,
by
called "armoured divisions", which the Allies used in their turn.
The armour in such divisions was a small pebble in it large sling. As the
war went on the dis- proportion beenme
worse.
While the pebble BUT all the calculations on
consisted of barely which their plans are This will not be achieved, 200 tanks, the sling | based could be upset if the however, along recent amounted to over
Invasion were made with a' lines of making each new 3.000 other vehicles new kind of army, or even model of tank 11 little over a new kind of spearhead for heavier than the last. the invading army.
......
LIDDELL HART
foremost British thinker on the science of war. A military critic to whom these tributes were paid: By GUDERIAN, creator of the German tank forces which broke through in the West: "I was one of Liddell Hart's disciples." By ROMMEL:
"The British would have been able to prevent the greatest part of their defeats if they had paid more attention to... Liddell Hart."
and
When ten years inter the Ger-
It
started
If we are to develop adequato
It is the principle of. striking power we must con- saturation of confront- struct our mechanical enake on ing the defence with a clearly thought-out design- many more separate as reducing the length of the tall and increasing the strength of the head.
sailant than he cope with,
can
then led
to
We add something to protect The present trend mechanical design to an element that is only ntxiliary,
on to add wards bigger tanks and and are thus fewer of them is something else protect the unfavourable 10
the protectorat each step multiply- chances of "saturation" Ing transport, numbers, supply tactics.
needa, and hence transport again.
We might gain much by a fresh effort to de-The-epential tactical den of velop lighter and such a division is that of fighting cheaper type of tank, mounted to retain its impetus provided that the im- the cavalry did in the days. portance of obstacle when they played the decisivo crossing capacity is kept role on the battlefield.
but
FOOT-FIGHTERS
for
in mind,
Superior hitting power counts 15,000 men-only a mun Army had the chance to for much in the design of a to create tank, and even for self-protec- small fraction being tank rearra
panzer divisions corresponding tion is relatively of more valueHILE the inclusion of men The weight of tanks has men.
to the first-phase design.
Than thick armour:
W who can fight on foot is a Guderian wanted 10 That happened ten years trebled in the last ten years,
go manoeuvrability is even more tactical necessity for dislodg Nine tenths of the further but was restrained by important for quickness in ing enemy troops under cover ago-in May 1910-when as a result of continuous vehicles
wheeled conservative superiors. were
changing fire-positions
obstacles, And behind
and for of the West, efforts to mount a bigger transport, largely confined the defences
shortening the range for more various defensive dutie it is a held by 110 old type gun and thicker
Nevertheless, a handful of the effective re. armour to the road.
fundamental mistake o! or- That was a "evolutionary" pattern divisions, divisions, collapsed in a few We have reached the limit growing handicap
guntsation if the proportion of air produced a revolution in war-
Such "mounted infantry," dis days under the impact of a of what is practicable with attack increased and
mounting to fight, exceeds or tiny new-type spearhead out forfeiting mobility.
likely to become worse.
even equals the proportion that consisting of a mere ten
flights mounted, mannlng tanks divisions before panzer
and self-propelled guns (on lank the bulk of the
chassis). German Army had even
come into nction.
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But the penetrativo power of the anti-tank pro
hus jectile
continued grow.
NOT YET TRIED
is fare. It caused the defeat of› TANK-TORRENT
Poland, Western Europe, and
the Balkong bu turn. It came
Nearly 30 years ago wrote a treatise on future
I
vicar to defeating Russia, but in the end fell short.
As the
I
is time for a reversal of the elephantine trend in tank wor continued design, and a move towards the to mechanised warfare and the armoured forces of that pat- revival of tank-torrent lactics.
At the same
time the tool- "Development of a New tem became increasingly check-
to bo Achting element ought The tank of the future will entirely carried in tracked Model Army," which suged by forces of similar mobility have to be atted with night vehicle armour-protected, so
more rarely gested how this might be and
driving vision and probably that they have a cross-country
with mobility and
found
chleved in two phases opportunities of catching foot- with radar as well as
Such a catastrophe might. happen again—if the in- vader suddenly produced a
marching forces unprotected.
wireless. new-type apearhead
the first "evolutionary" and THUS we seem to have
Yet the Anglo-American different from existing
It should be able to pass safely dead end, the second "revolutionary."
armies of the later period, when through a radioactive belt of forces as that of 1940 was. Soldiers are even saying In the first phase, the the tide turned, made no serious
country, Indeed, it might happen that armoured forces bave new model divisions would effort to develop a newer model-despite much superler more easily. Ten years had their day.
of a spearhead of industrial resources.
reached 悲
consist
BITS OF LONDON SCATTERED
A
CHERISHED little bit of London may soon be going home at great
The expense.
Hertfordshire.
London
ALL OVER THE WORLD
a
manoeuvrability equal to the armoured fghting units.
Moreover, the quicker they can intervene, the fewer of
If we try to combine all these them will be required that is a matter of common experience requirements with a powerful in warfare. weapon and provide over-all
armoured protection of adequato A company of such true "lank- thickness, the tank is bound to marinesi could often brush become an Increasingly clumsy away opposition that whole.
monster.
The design must be simplified to produce a mechanical David Instead of u Gollath.
A distinguished tank expert, General Birks, suggests that this may be
three.
lorried battalion or more could
not overcome an hour later,
CLEAR PATH
FURTHER reduction in the achieved by external A size
of the foot-fighting GAT 2.30, 5.30, Society plans to raise £10,- ings and fragments would Essex.
their rightful home, build- build Ingress, Abbey, in rural remove It with the uld of mounting of the main arma-
element in the division might be cranes, trucks and trolleys-tament~a. rocket-launcher or obtained by the use of airborne 000 to bring the historic have to be transported from transplanted
This merely begins the list of his country house near
Hus-coilless type of gun-which
Troops, especially if the means should be sighted, fired, and fed of using these la improved and Temple Bar back to London as far away.as the Zambest, stones of the original Aldgate,
Cockneys. The Angs.
with ammunition mechanically. developed. from a park in the County of Some would be found in some bearing the City farms, When St Paul's was restored,
The armoured body 'could Canada. Many of Sir were Incorporated in rugged stones were sent to nearly
They could be dropped ahead The famous last surviving Christopher
Rothley
in Wren's
Custle,
cathedrals for then be quite small-a cabin to of the armoured drive to seizo distant dozen overseas iron Northumberland.
apparatus obstacles likely to hold it up, gate of the City of London railings from St Paul's now the
The facade of incorporatiun in
their
fabric.buse the directing
no more than and then clear the path. used to be in the way of adorn a Toronto park, while Cheapside
old Mercers all from Stones from the bitzed Middle with crow of
sonetimes puzzles Temple aut House of
Commons
Armoured forces must move traffic. So it was carefully a demolished Wren church overseas sightseers when they were similarly marketed for
Another possibility in the light, be able to operate self- taken down stone by stone spire has been rebuilt in New it in front of Swanage dollars in America during
develop more and has spent 60 years in Zealand.
Town Hall Nearby you will war. Recently elected Members development of remote-control contained, and
tanks for the spearhead. With capacity to cut loose from com- rural retirement.
crowless tanks it would
munications-if not
they are to Yet if all London's exiled Waterloo Bridge again in
decide to built Rennie's old and a clock tower from London of Parliament enjoy
matier that a high proportion attain the degree of ollensive stones were taken back to time for the 1951 Festival of
were knocked out if an effective mobility required for a decisive fraction penetrated the whole follow-through. depth of the defence-then, the
The armoured force
of the exploitation of the breakthrough could
future must have the all-over get going, ond might better be carried out by manned having its tall tied to the road.
mobilty of n nake, without tanks,
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London Express Bereice.
If Londoners
Britain, they will literally
have to comb the world.
Some of the stonework bas
By RONALD
GARTH
fre
the
strange
rivers
The
be
elements. to.
been built into the balcony of Bridge, weathervanes from old privilege, for they are given the the Parliament House in Perth, Billinggate and ornate
unarmoured Jamp first opportunity of buying de-
difference could be should A vital
cut down Western Australia. For quld lang posts bearing London
stonework street cayed
from
the made by the advent of a non minimum. So should the road. syne-Hennie зуля a Scols names.
Houses of Parliament whenever specialised amphiblous tank, vehicles. man-balustrades rest in Aber-
replacements
swimming necessary. capable of deen and Perth while Two Mowlem and Burt, demolition Perhaps the best prize was a without sacrifice of its general The maximum possible pro- others are souvenirs for British contractors, were Swanage men complete line of battlements tactical value. residents in the African village and always remembered thel with gorgoyles now used as 11 of Mbabane, Swaziland. Lamp- home town when they had garden wall in the grounds of standards from the bridge are some *particularly uttractive Lilleshall Hull, Shropshire. scattered in Bulawayo
Awaiting and piece of old rubbish Salisbury.
disposal!
A LONG TAIL
portion of the infantry should. be airborne. What is moved on the ground should be track- borne rather than wheel-borne.
London sheds its stones only
Supply to such mobile forces. with dificulty. When the statue T can thus be seen that, in the should be as far as possible by The 60-ton centre span of Then there is the grim secret of King William IV was re- sphere of tank design, there air transport rather than by land... the former Millbank Thames cherished by the white marble moved from the northern end are many possiblities still transport. emergency bridge, almilarly, IN statue of Queen Anne outside of London Bridge, no fewer than undeveloped.
now used acros tributary. Bridge-makers been economical
العاة
And
these are the
potentialities
Given stil
of forces,
such fully mobile the Western Powers should be able to make rings
You can four future
Inves- Beyond Zambesi St Paul's Cathedral.
sites were have often spot it in the newsreels tigated and rejected. The Privy undeveloped In using old
photographs of state pro- Counell, Treasury, Admiralty, new organisation peris ever since chains and ceralons. The statue is only a Omce of Works, Ecclesiastical We have not yet tried the round the Red Army as at pre- rods from the Hungerford copy. The original lady became Commissioners, Trinity House second stage, or "revolutionary" sent organlard
But if the Russians were, to Bridge,
famillar to Dickens,
the Court rather knocked about in sundry Brethren and
of pattern, suggested 30 years ago, develop such forces and we had Incorporated In the Citf national celebrations, minus
Common Council all had to be The small striking head of an Suspension Bridge near nose and an arm. Finally the consulted before King Willam armoured division can leave the not done so, a disaster Bristol. Arul authentic pieces of Archbishop of Canterbury was
finally moved to Green-road and dart round an obstacle, than 1940 would befall us. old London Bridge helped to agreed to allow a Mr Hare to wich-less than five miles away. but the wheel-borne tail cannat. -(London Express Service).
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