War Department officials are said to have ordered the study in answer to widespread demands in both civi-lion land military circles that the Army throw its present organization overboard and adopt German methods.
The Nazi's mass tank attacks, and use, of aerial bombardment concentrations to weaken the enemy do not constitute military innovations. Army sources said, adding that this form of attack had been vastly, over-dramatized.
Army Officials are said to have discovered nothing in the German technique that would have demoralized a properly equipped and expanded American force. It alò was said in this connection that the nation's defence plans have been based on the attack formula, as demonstrated by operations in the Argonne-Meuse campaign in 1918 The Army Air Corps, it was pointed out, has been trained in the concentrated attack technique for several years. What the corps lacks is a sufficient number of planes and replacements to compete with the vast German armada.
The same is true of tanks, military specialists observed, Germany ow vast numbers of tanks of all
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