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WRONG TYPE OF ARMY?

W

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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Alan Watson--take A

letter to the Acme Air Cushion Company."

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).

were

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