Imagination Wanted

Grey River Argus, 20 August 1942, Page 7

Imagination Wanted

“Inadequacy of material resources is at best only a partial explanation of these defeats. The most constant feature of the military defeats and setbacks sustained in the last two years has been Jack of imagination. In every case there has been failure to anticipate the nature and quality of the hostile attack or to frame a coherent plan of campaign, given the resources available, to counter it. The directors of our strategy persistently under-estimated the strength of our enemies, just as, at the outset, they under-estimated the strength of our Russian allies.” —“The Times,” London.