Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-01-07

Plans as Devised WouId Repcl Inva-
sion BY Two Powers From Both
Sides at One Time

sion BY Two Powers From Both
Sides at One Time
N itiA tfN III
an army and navy capable of s,ic-
cessfUlly resisting attack upon any
portion of the coasts of the United
States. Central or South America, not
only by any single foreign. power,
but by any two such powers in alii-
ance, are the ultimate ends aimed at
by army and navy strategists who
formulated plans for national defense
and who have made a report as to
their ideas on the subject. They pc
lieve II is said, that an adequate mill
itary policy must provide against as
sault by either European or an Ash
attic Icwer, or an alliance of two sroh
powers, which might seek 70 attack
tie rev Monroe Doctrine Their
plans would provide sufficient force
TO crable the United States to act
alone.
Such a force would requirs navy
equal to those of any two world pow
ers except Great Britain, and an ar
my large enough so portion could
be used in any Central or South Am
erican country without impairing the
safety of the United States itself
Ten years is the time the navy gem
eral board believes the United states
has in which to prepare for read
justment of world forces which will
follow the European war. In setting
1925 as the time when the United
States Navy should be equal to any
afloat, which means the reaching Of
the two7power standard of the Brit
ish navy-the board estimated that
much time would. elapse before the
shock of the present war passed suf-
ficiently to rpemit any of the bellig-
erents to look to South or Central
America for colonial development or
trade aggression, p ne't9" 10 1a7
| Plans OF the Army War College
would be contaminated in six years.
The army officers take the position
that the United States must have suf-
ficient troops and troop ships to land
forces in any threatened Pan-Ameri-
can country to meet an invader. -
All these preparations, it is now
known, have been presented by mil
itary and naval strategists to the ad-
ministration as essential to support
the Monroe Doctrine, so that the I'm
tied States may be able to act alone
if necessary to preserve it's ideal of no
entangling alliances.
Such ideals, the military students
have stated, impose new duties on tie
United States--duties that require
something more than a policy of nero
passive resistance
To accomplish this the general board
then recommended for the navy.
1. Authorization in 1861 of
$500, 900, 600 in new ships, as against
a total investment in fighting eqnip-
ment now afloat during the last thir-
ty years of $45O.696,511
Q. Construction of four battle.
cruisers and four dreadnaughts un-
der this program.
8. Expansion of ship-buildiag IA
cilities to admit of even heavier
building programs in succeeding
years.
For the army the War College rec
commended;
/. Expenditure in 1916-17 of APP
proximately $500, 100000 to produce
o mobile army under federal control,
which. with its reserves, would total
1900, 900 in six years; 100000 fully
trained regulars, and the remainder
continentals. a.
2. Increasing by so per cent the
equipment and the personnel of the
coast artillery in four years at to-
tai cost of $S1 100000.
2. Accumulation in four years of
reserve ammunition and material
worth s104O0O.OOO.
In view of the enormous, and what
e they have regarded as almost pro
4 hibitive cost of these proposals, Sec
s retary Garrison and Secretary Daniels
I mapped out the s1,O0O.0OO.OO six.
year program, which President viii
son has laid before Congress, proHd.
Y ing essentially as follows:
y For the navy: Bg7
1. New constructions within five
. years. costing $5OO,OOO,OOO. which
. will add six battle cruisers and ten
d dreadnaughts to the fighting line by
1924.
} 2. Distribution of the remainder
of the building program through the
next four years at rate of $780,
600 900 a year.