Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary of War Davis...
Last fortnight the War Department sounded off twice. Both announcements were sponsored by Secretary of War Davis himself but from the subject involved it was plain to see that the Assistant Secretary of War, chunky, cheerful Hanford MacNider, was on his job. The subject of the announcement and the MacNider job were and are munitions...
...theory underlying the U. S. Army is primarily a theory of defense. The Congressional Act embodying the theory is called the National Defense Act, passed in 1916, amended in 1920 and 1922. Besides charging the Assistant Secretary of War with the specific task of finding shot and shell and guns to shoot them for U. S. defense, the act sets up the U. S. military as follows: 1) The Regular Army, 2) The Nattional Guard, 3) The Organized Reserves. The U. S. is divided into nine corps areas of equal population. In war, each area would supply one Army division...
Munitions sufficient to supply two of these three armies until U. S. industry could be converted to a war basis are supposed to be stored in U. S. arsenals. This provision of the National Defense Act was the nub of the first of the War Department announcements. Secretary Davis notified the President that U. S. arsenals were shy some $516,000,000 worth of reserve munitions...
Unabashed, Secretary Davis last week issued his second announcement in the form of a letter to Congress. This time he discussed sources of munitions instead of sums. Not only would the first two U. S. Field Armies run short of munitions soon after a war began, but, as things now stand, they would have to wait about a year to get more munitions. They would have to wait longer than that if U. S. factories had to be taught how to make munitions. Therefore, since modern armies fight on their factories as well as their stomachs, Secretary Davis asked Congress...