Bisbee daily review., 1920-03-04
MANY CHANGES
 CONTEMPL LATED
 IN ARMY ! [ X l.
WASHINGTON, March 3. su,

WASHINGTON, March ;. --- Sucn phrases as lover the top" and 'liaison' which were a common part of the par lance of war literature and conversa- tion. are doomed to disappear from American military phraseology and will not be included in the army text books of the future. The new field service regulations of the United States army and the manuals of the various arms of the service. now being prepared by the General Staff, will diff fer in but minor details from the reg ulatiOns in force before the world war, and will show practically no traces of the passing vogue of foreign methods.
 The formation of strictly Ameri- can doctrine of tactics, and the estab- lishment of a system of uniform in- structions in all military schools is the aim of the trainine section of the Gen. eral Staff. according to high officers here. So-called trench warfare" was only passing episode in military his tory. in the view of the officers. while the fundamental principles of war are the same as those employed by Napo- leon at Jena and by Grant at Gettys- burg.
 This policy was stated to. students of the present class at the Army Service Schools at Fort Leavenworth. Kansas, by Brigadier General Hugh A. Drum, director of the line school, who was chief of staff of the First Army over seas.
 Our exDeriences in the European war have been sufficient and the re- suits so creditable," General Drum said. "that we have little or no need to borrow tactical doctrines from foreign country" General Drum said that such terminoloey as "open," po- sition." stabilized" and trench war fare'' would probably not be recog- nizer or employed, as the same tactical nrinciDles apnlv to all of those so-call- nd clnsses of warfare.
 Inst as General Pershing insisted on training the American Expeditlonary Forces for "oDen" warfare. so at the service schools, General Drum said "the medication of an offensive spirit which must be the primary object of the course is best obtained by the study of open warfare offensive situ- atiOns."
 At the same time, it is the plan of the General Staff to make due allow ance for new weauons develoDed in re- cent years, especially infantry weap- nns such as the one-pounder, guns. au- tomatic rifles and machine guns. These weapons have made necessary the creation of several new units and slight notifications of old infantry formation.
 Foreign words will be eliminated from the terminology of the manuals. For example, information" will take the place of "liaison." "Liaison offic- CTS" a war product, will be known as "information officers"
 The service schools will compile their own text books. General Drum said and German authorities studied
 before the war. will be discarded While the use of new weapons has caused some changes in organization. it must not be forgotten, officers em- phasize, that infantry remains the principal branch of the army and tilo, | other services are auxiliary arms In this connection it was recalled that | General Pershing, in a letter to the | Chief of the Air Service, commenting upon the functions of airplanes, said
 that "an air force by itself cannot ob- tain a decision against forces on the
 ground"
 acting independently, can of it's u-n
 account, neither wln a war at the pres
 ent time, nor so far as we can tell, ~U
 any time in the future"