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...Naval shipbuilders are expanding 50%, 100%, 200%. Said a worried admiral last week: "It won't be enough, I'm afraid." In morale, in guts and ability to fight with what they have, the Navy's officers and men cannot be excelled. The quality of its command, the planning and execution of the construction program are all high-by the Navy's accepted standards. Whether those standards have been high enough for modern war, only such a war can tell...
...officers appreciated the possibility of air attack, but their failure to translate the appreciation into protection for the ships is the one real miscalculation they made during the 20 years of peace." This miscalculation of the effectiveness of aircraft also was mirrored in the failure of the High Command to provide as much aircraft equipment as a modern navy should have...
Among field officers a thorough weeding will have to be carried out. A similar process has already begun in the high command. Of the officers who headed General Staff sections in Washington early last year, only one remained last week: Brigadier General Sherman Miles, in charge of Army Intelligence...
Today the Army in the field is a great school force, whose officer-teachers themselves have to be taught. Given equipment, given time, given competent command, the job ahead can be done, but so far it has only been begun...
...meet in Los Angeles and later a boxing match in Harlem. He became the youngest brigadier in the British Army at 27, and during the war performed several exploits almost as fantastically courageous as the Gallipoli swim. Between wars he stayed in the Army, and in 1939 was given command of the second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. In Greece he and his men piled up a composite record of courage in successive rear-guard actions...