The Arvada enterprise., 1923-10-11

Maj Victor Iefebure In his work. "The Riddle
of the Rhine" predicts that the next war will oe
a war particularly Of chemistry He dwe'ls ON
the possibilities Of tho combination Of gas nnd
aircraft and he warns that no prohibition or agree
ment is going to stop the use Of such weapons
when national existence Is believed to be at stake
But It Is Col. ]. r. C. Fuller, ID. 8. O., who car.
ries this talk Of chemical to Its logical con-
clusion In his new book, "The Reformation OF
War" He Ii an Engilshman and professional
soldier who knows war both in theory and prac-
tice. His book gives US pen pictures OF war a. It
will be fought when the fighting airplane. tanks
and gas reach the full maturity Of their terrible
power.
Colonel Fullers bnsic proposition Is that war
Is Of the Inevitable" He has the utmost contempt
for peace talk. disarmament propositions. and the
Outlawing Of certain weapons and certain methods
Of hghtIng He believes that when war comes
nations will use tie most efficient weapon avail.
able. be 1t what 1t may. He asserts thnt the ira
ditIonal soldier Is doomed that In the coming war
present-day armies and navles Will he value
less that the World war will be the last Of its
kind Up to the end of the last great struggle
he says, war was Of two dimensions. The air
plane made war three dimensional. What IL the
use Of armies fighting. II airplanes can leap the
armies and carry the to the heart Of the
enemy's country. The arplnne. however. Is mere
OF transportation for gas. the most efficient
means OF destruction the world has yet seen. He
says 1900 bullets minute Gun be fired in shrapne
from field gun and then says:
Gus Is, however. composed OF chemical mole
cules each OF which can disable; consequently
the projcctiles Of a gas bombnrdment cannot be
reckoned by thousands per minute but by thou.
sands OF trIlons In fact. so immense a number
That II Is not necessary to know the position
OF the tnrget NIL that IL necessary is to know In
what area II Is. and then 10 inuninte this area.
Unlike bullet. the effect of gas does not cease
f.,r., ufnltp 10 10
while the bullet Is dead the gas molecule Is
alive md may remain alive for days after gas
has been projected II the render can imagine a
machine gun which cnn fire millions Of bullets
a second, each bullet drifting after the force
OF the original discharge has been spent. creeping
through trees and houses. wandering over walls
and into shelters and dugouis. then he will have
some Idea how gas can he used to economIze mill.
tary time"
Colonel Fuller says the traditional soldier" will
be succeeded by the "wnr scientist" whose strnt.
egy will he to attack the nerves rather thnn the
bodies Of the enemy. "The brute force theory Of
traditional warfare" will 90: In Its place will he
"the direct attack on the source Of nl military
powcr-the nerves and Will Of the civil popu.
laton." He says:
"a nation which destroys the economic resources
OF Its enemy, destroys Its eventual markets and
thus wounds itself. War must entail some lcss
but the less this loss Is the grenter will be the
victory; consequently, the military object OF 4
nation la not to kill and destroy, hut to enforce
the policy OF Its government with the least pos.
sible loss Of honor life and property. II the enemy
can be compelled to accept the hostile policy with.
out battle so much the better. II he opposes II
by military force. then Il should never he forgot.
ten thnt the strength of this force rests on the
will OF the government which employs Il, and that,
In Its turn. this will rests on the will Of the nation
which this government represents. n the will Of
the nation cannot be directly nttncked, then must
the will of the nrmy protecting II he broken In
the pnst this will has been attacked by attacking
the flesh Of the soldiers and consistent hns this
been thnt the idea has arisen thnt the military
object OF war is to kill and destroy. Thus In the
popular and military mnginatons, the mems have
obscurcd the end consequently. the prevailing idea
Of all pnrties In the recent war wHs destruction.
TO destroy each other. and blinded were they
by the means thnt they could not are that In the
very net they were destroying Themselves not only
during the war. but In the peace which must some
day follow the war.
Il believe that the world u slowly learning this