Word: kernan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colonel Kernan's title was announced to a public eager to hear that the United States should and must attack if it wants to defeat Nazi Germany. The idea is eminently sound, but it is not new. Every isolationist in the country before December 7 loudly pointed out that Hitler could not be defeated until American boys marched down Unter den Linden, and since that time cartoonists and editorial writers in every major paper in the country with the exception of the Chicago Tribune have pounded on the theme of attack...
...unfortunately only a very few pages of Colonel Kernan's very short book are devoted to a military proof of how attack and attack alone can win this war. The majority of his space he spends on expanding his basic idea in two directions, both of which seem to lead him into the mires of confusion and false proof. First he tries to generalize on his thesis and to prove the need and validity of the attack at all times and under all possible situations. Second, he tries to reduce his thesis to specifics and claims that an attack...
...Says Kernan: wars are not won or lost in outposts like the Philippines; they are decided in headlong clashes at the great centers of military strength. His own plan is for a U.S.-British offense against Italy ("the solar plexus of the Axis") this spring, using three-fourths of the U.S. Fleet, at least half of Britain's, every bombing plane and every transport of both nations, an A.E.F. of 200,000 men a month...
...Colonel Kernan's plan would draw many a criticism. But the keynote of Kernan's book-attack-was the mounting watchword of the week. To the U.S. as a nation the thought of dynamic, aggressive warfare was just what the people ordered...
...18th Field Artillery, Lieut. Colonel Kernan once taught languages at Georgia Tech, medieval philosophy at Harvard, was literary executor to late, great Harvard Philosopher Josiah Royce...