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...supply problem alone is prodigious. Yet General Somervell went to London expressly to tell the British that it could be solved. The problem of picking the attack area is staggering. On the Channel coast, the Germans will be thickest but the supply lines shortest. On the Norwegian coast the landing would be easier, the supply problem (across more than 400 miles of sea) far more difficult. The problem of coordinating Empire and U.S. troops, of hooking two armies, two navies and two air forces (with further subdivisions) into a single, smoothly functioning tactical weapon was one to chill the heart...
...Army. . . . 12.5% of all cases evacuated from the B.E.F. in France [in World War II] had a diagnosis of gastric or duodenal [intestinal] disease. . . . Whenever a diagnosis of ulcer has been established, the soldier should be invalided from the Army and returned to civilian life in the shortest possible time. . . . In civilian practice patients with gastric or duodenal ulcer obtain rapid relief of symptoms from rest in bed and diet, but in my experience such symptomatic relief is rarely encountered in military practice...
...competition, in order not to conflict with the College's accelerated program, will be the shortest ever conducted, lasting only six weeks to the day and ending well before the final examination period begins...
...airplanes (trainers and Curtiss Hawk fighters). Now the British wish that more of India's industries were on the west coast, fewer on and near the Bay of Bengal's vulnerable shoreline. India's industrial prizes, in the Calcutta area, lie at the end of the shortest sea and air route from Burma...
...lines of communication which are so monstrously extended that our navies and our shipping cannot possibly be adequate. At the same time, for political reasons, we are not concentrating our force for effective action in the one theater of the war, namely western Europe, where our communications are the shortest, the strategic position the most favorable and the gains to be obtained by strong action in conjunction with Russia the largest and the most immediate...