New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 6, 1917, Page 12

JERMAN V. VANKEE | NAVAL STRATEGY ar Adnira Fske Descibes ’ ’.How Se_r@s_ Eompare v Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske, U. 8. N, formerly aide for opera- tions, U. S. Navy). IThe most important element con- ted with a navy is the = strategy lch directs it, in accordance with Mch all its plans are laid—plans - preparation before war and plans 5 operations during war. Strates¥ to a navy what mind is to a man. determines its character, its com- gt‘ton. its aims; land so far as ex- Bal condiffons will permit, the re- which it accomplishes. dislikes, intensely to-criticise his n country, even tor himself. But en a.naval officer is studving—as fshould contintally do—what must idone, in order to protect his coun- from attack by some foreign foe. would be criminal folly for him to imate the situation otherwise than nestly; and tp .do this, it is neces- v to try to sce where his country iweak and where strong, relatively the possible foes jn question.; If | do this, and compare the strate- la1 methods emploxed by—say Geér- ny and us—we are forced to admit At the German methods are better lhpted to producing economically a ¥ fitted to contend successfully in against an enemy. _ {n Germany develogment of the navy has been ictly alomg the lines of a' method efully ‘deévised beforehand; in our Ntry no method whatever is ap- nt, at least no logical method. hzress, and congress alone, decides t vessels and other craft shall be it, how ‘mafly officers and men 1 wear the uniform. It is true [t they consult the report of the of the navy, and ask the pions of certain naval officers in- finz the general board, before ing his report, But both the etary and congress estimate the lationi from their own péints of e ‘ these naval officers is not - valuable, mnlbly‘hs it ‘might be; the reason that it'is. reallw irre- [nstbfe, since the advisers them- 'bem know that it will not be taken riously. The. difference be- i{eir th agvice of men held réspon- [§e for the results of . following { dvice, and the /advice of men [] 50 held responsible, is well recog- and is dispussed fully in’the | prts of the Moody, and Swift boards [{the organization of the Navy de- [itment. Furth&‘more, ‘our officers [inot have the machinery of the spiel to. help thém. It is true 3t the Ngval War college, a war- 3e apparatus is installed and that | games are played, and war prob- | 48 solved; hut the officers there are ¥ properly engaged in the regular f{k of a war college, in educating gh in " the frinciples’ of warfare, have little time for other work. aleo true that the war games and lems there do lead occasionally commendations by the War col- P to the general board as to vari- || matters; but the conneection’ be- en the conclusions of the war col- afd the decisions of congress via iconclusions of the War college and decisions of congress via the gen- b rd -and the secretary of the ¥ is. 80 fragile and discontinuous, £ it ‘may truthfully be‘said that {influence of the war games at ! War college has but a faint re- iblance to the determining force of {Kriegspiel in Berlin. The Difference. often said that Germany is an and the United States a re- ;and that therefore the mili- ‘methods off Germany. ‘cannot be ‘ed here. The inference is not #sarily correct however, as is b by the excellency of the ‘army ince, for France, although a )He, insists that military strategy “sBall control and direct the army. {“American congress can do the with the American navy. ler congress shall so decide or the degcision will undoubtedly be L% and we of the navy will do our “lostito make the navy all it should _uffi(’%“(hm \connection, it should be at: - Germany has been following a Strategic system regarding the we a system different from that ly other navy, which has been /1 now for more than one hundred | forty vears. Both systems have h in ‘operation for a time sufficient- g to warrant our ©cédmparing , by comparing the resultg they achieved. i ’ The German navy has been in lence ‘a much shorter time than mericaW navy, belongs to 4 much populous and wealthy coustry, yet is not only 30 per cent. larg- n trained -personnel, but if we ke by the maneuvers carried on oth peace and war, is much bet- lin organization, morale, .and ca- ity for doing naval work upen the ‘We do not, of course¢, know Germany has been.doing since war began.on August 1, 1914, but accounts show that Germany, like the other helligerent powers, has 1 adding units of material and jorinel to her. navy much more ly than they have been de- as well . as, perfecting her , under the influence of the stimulus. Jeaving out of con- on, however, what she may ' been ‘doing sincé the war’ be- “and ‘neglecting any unauthenti- accounts of her status before rted, ¥e know positively tHat in the maneyvers of the German were executed by a force of 21 eships, 3 battle cruisers, 5 small s, 6 flotillas of destroyers (that 6 seagoing torpedo vessels,) 11 arines, an airship, a number of planes and special service shii jnic_sweepers—all in one fiée junder one admiral, and maneu- NEW BRITAIN BAILY vered as a unit. This was nearly three years ago and we have never come anywhere near such a performance. In January 1916, the United States Atlanelc fleet capable as to both.ma- terial and personnel of going to sea and maneuvering . together, consisted of 15 battleships and 23 destroyers, 2 mine-depot ships and 1 mine-train- ing ship, and 4 tugs fitted as mine sweepers—with no submarines, no aircraft of any kind, no scouts (un- less the Chester be so considered, which-was cruising alone off the coast of Liberia, and the Birming- ham, which was flag ship to the de- strover flotilla.) This was the only fleet that we had ready to fight in January 1916; because, although more battleships could have been put into commission, this could have been done only by putting out of commis- sion certain smaller vessels such as | cruisers, and gunboats; and the battleships would have had to be put | into ‘commissian very hurriedly, filled up. with men fresh from other ships, and no more ready to fight in - the fleqt against an enemy (whose ships | were fully manned with well-trained officers and men, accustomed to the | details of their respective ships, and | acquainted with each other) than the Chesapeake was ready to fight Shannon. 2 . 3. In case our system is not so good as that of—say Germany—or of any other country.having a system equal- Iy excellent, we shall never be able to contend successfully against that navy, under equally strategic condi- tions, unlesslwe have an excess over her in numbers of personnel and ma--| terial sufficient to counteract our in- | feriority in efficiency. Strategy Means Efliciency. The. efficiency of ajnavy or an army iz exactly what the strategic system makes it. Eleven thousand Greeks under Miltiades, highly efficient and thoroughly trained, defeated 100,000 Persians at Marathon. A Greek fleet under Themistocles defeated and {] almost destroyed a much larger Per- ' sian fleet at Salamis. of less than 35,000 men, but trained by Philip of father, Alexander, in years conquered With an army highly Macedon, his only twelve world. Caesar, Alari magne and all the grgat military men from the greatest antiquity down to | the present moment have trained and organized- bodies of soldiers' and sail- suited to the and then waged successful war | militarily efficient. | on ‘peoples less Cortez ¢onquered Mexico, and Pizar- ro conquered. Peru; the diang of North America, and during ' HANDLE LAMPS'! Nothin} compares with “them for beauty. " We have the largest stock of portable lamps in, New Brit- * SEE OUR "WINDOW then come in and see New Britain’s most ,complete Electrical Store. 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These results were brought abo almost solely by the exercise of mil- \itary force:—and of this force, physi- cal courage was not a determining element, because it was just as evi- dent in the conquered as in the con- querors, The determining element was strategy that (under the behest of policy) prepared the military and naval forces in material and person- l nel before they were used, and di- rected their operations, while they were being used. | Of all the single factors that have actually and directly made the his- tory-of the world; the most important factor has been strategy. ONION SELLS FOR $300, TLondon, April 6.—Lord Saye-and- Sele, holder of one of the oldest and proudest titles in England, set a rec- ord as an auctioneer at a Red Cross sale in Banbury when he induced bugers to bid up an ordinary onion to $300, at which price it was finally /knocked down to an impromptu *‘syn- dicate” of society men and women.. 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