"Some say we should never have fought without superior or at least ample alr support. and ask when this essen will be learned. - Questions 10 be settled are not always between what is good and had. Very often it Is a choice between iwo very terrible alternatives, If you cannot have this essential and desirable air support, must you yield important key pointe" one after another? Others have told me: You should defend no place that you cannot be sure you can hold. Then one must ask; Can tone ever be sure how a battle will Sevelop before it is fought?
"If the principle of not defending any place You cannot be sure of hold-Ing were adopted, would not the enemy be able to make an unlimited ible conquests with "Where you make a stand and engage them With resolution? A. further question rises: What would happen if you allowed the enemy to advance and overrun. without costs to himself, the most precious and valuable strategic points? Suppose we had never gone Greece or attempted to defend Gretel Where would the Germans be now? Suppose we had simply re-'Signed the territory and strategic 1sands without fight, Might they not at this early stage of the campaign In 44 already te the masters of Syria and Iraq and preparing. themselves for_an advance into Persia? The Germans. in this, war have gained many. victories. They have overrun great countries and down strong powers with
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