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LECTURE

*SOME CURRENT MILITARY PROBLEMS OF THE FAR EAST"

ROYAL CENTRAL ASIAN SOCIETY

THURSDAY

17th NOVEMBER, 1949

INTRODUCTION

May I say firstly, how honoured I feel to have been asked

to address your Society this afternoon, and, secondly, how

grateful I am that your Committee has allowed me to choose my

own subject.

The subject, as the title "Some Current Military Problems of the Far East" implies, is somewhat outside the strict confines

But even of the area in which your Society is most interested.

so it marches with that area and the trend of events in the Far

East does now, and may even more in the future, affect happenings in Central Asia. For this reason, coupled with the fact that until lately I was closely connected with our defence interests there,I selected the Far East as the subject of my address.

It will, I realise, be full well appreciated by an audience such as you that, in considering to-day's Military problems from the highest level, concerning as they do not only the three fighting Services but the Civil authorities too, one must impinge upon the sphere of international politics, economy and other matters which might appear to be outside the sphere of a soldier. But if Military problems are to be studied in a proper perspective then it is highly desirable that the fighting Services do possess some insight into these matters.

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