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Many a soldier has rushed into print, but not often on the side of the angels. Major Karl-Axel Bratt, Swedish staff officer and member of the committee considering Sweden's national defense policy, has written a book about the next war, but against it, not for it. Like many another Cassandra, Major Bratt thinks that unless Something Is Done the next war will be upon us before we know...
...white races, the civilized races, cannot survive the next great war, perhaps principally on account of the consequent revolutionary chaos in which the West will be submerged." Major Bratt's prophetic descriptions of future strategy are arresting. The massive infantry armies of the last War are already obsolete, he thinks. Infantry of the future will move in smaller units, made more mobile by rapid motor transport. But the most significant new development was foreshadowed in the Allied campaign of 1919? planned but never executed: an attack from the air on Germany's industrial centres. Supremacy in the air, says Major...
Like all professional men, soldiers try to keep up-to-date in their profession; in other words, prepare for fighting. Says Major Bratt gloomily: "The documents relating to the annihilation of the world lie collected in the underground armored cellars of the General Staffs or the Air Staffs. One day they will bear witness." To those who still believe The War To End War really ended it he says: "History only knows longer and shorter intervals between wars. . . . The generation which deludes itself, in an interval between wars, that war is over, should cease to do so." Besides "the situation...
...romantic, Major Bratt thinks the dollar is mightier than the pen. He believes the U. S. finally entered the War because U. S. Industry had become allied with the Entente; that "under these circumstances the patriotic associations were moved to induce America to enter the war and thereby guarantee a victory...
Panacea. Like most panaceas for war, Major Bratt's is a little indefinite of outline, is stronger on its negative side. Disarmament he considers impossible. "There cannot be any disarmament, or even reduction of armaments worthy of the name, until the nations have begun, at least in principle, to prepare for some federation, or until some more effective form than the present League of Nations has been found." The next war must be postponed long enough to find some such effective force for peace. What Major Bratt would like to see is an alliance between Labor and Capital; then...