Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-08-19
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WAR BATTLES
MILITARY MEN
Fundamentalists Believe Next
Conflict Will Be the Same
Old Thing
AIRCRAFT WILL PLAY
LEAD PART, SAY FLIERS
Chemical School of Opinion Poi
son Gas Will Decide
Next War

WASHINGTON, August 10, -
What the next war will be like no.
body knows.
Military men say they do-doubt-
less think so. But they disagree.
Different schools of EXPERTS nre
dict half dozen or more entilelv
different kinds of fighting. Their
predictions conflict, too.
There's no way of adding them
up dividing by the total number
of predictions and striking an aver
age.
According to military funda-
mentalists the next war will be
about the same old thing. Armies,
with infantry as backbones, will
hight on land. Navics with battle
ships as their backbones will fight
at sea, Aircraft will figure more
than ever before but only as army
and navy auxiliaries, after all.
Warfare's principles haven't chang
ed a bit.
According to the aviation school
che next war will be fought in hte
air. Aircraft will wipe out armies
and navles in jig time. The coun,
try with the strongest flying force
will have the enemy at its mercy be-
fore he realizes fights started.
His surface defenses and defend
ers destroyers, his cities will be
bombed, his countryside harried
and he'll have a yield without hav-
ing had chnace to strike a blow.
According to the chemical school,
gas will decide the next war. 1t NAV
be outlawed but it will be used
Whole armies will be gassed in
their trenches. Crews will be gass-
ed on ships at sea. The populations
of entire cities will perish similar
ly. Airplanes will be convenient
for raining down death thus but
their ammunition will be chemical.
According to the tank school,
huge amphibious super-tanks will
win the next war. They'll dwarf
the World War tanks as battle.
ship dwarfs a destroyer. They'll
be irresistible and invulnerable.
According to one scientific little
group some entirely new weapon
nay settle the next war-some
kind of death ray"-some applica-
ton of natures overwhelmingly
and adaptation Of wireless princi-
pies, possibly.
The IDEAS rather vague but
there have been reports of expert
ments in this direction, not very
we'll authenticated but so persistent
as to have set the scientific set
a-thinking.
According to the orthodox, fun
damentalistic school, airplanes are
the surface land and sea forces
eyes-indispensible to see with but
otherwise of little use in a fight. |
Gas can't be used in any such guam
titles as the chemists say. Tanks !
are serviceable, but only adjuncts.
AS for death rays" pooh, pooh |
According to all the rest of the |
schools, each of the other schools |
is over-enthusiastic, with the excep-
ton of the orthodox school, which |
is out-Of- date.
These aren't all the schools -
only some of the principle ones, |
With so much disagreement among |
them, what's nation, dependent |
on their advice, to do?
Build up an all-'round military
establishment, to suit the whole out
fit? That's large order.
A navy, for instance, is expen-
sive. If it's to be destroyed, first
shot out Of the bottle, by aircraft,
it would be better to scrap it and |
concentrate on aircraft.
Yet suppose the country does
that, and then the aviation school
turns out to be mistaken. That |
would be had business, too.
Well, it's up to the experts to
fight it out the best they can.