U.S.A. PACIFIC STRATEGY

Grey River Argus, 2 May 1944, Page 5

U.S.A. PACIFIC STRATEGY

SUPERIOR TO BRITISH But Not U.S. Troops (Rec. 11.30., LONDON, May 1. “The Times’s” military correspondent, Captain Cyril Falls, in an article wherein he examines Pacific campaigns, says: The Americans cannot produce troops comparable to the Australians and New Zealanders, or those operating in Burma, except for their Marines, which have been seriously diluted, and formations of which have been two years in action. “The Americans are ahead of us in strategic conception in the Far East,” says Captain Falls. “This is all the more regrettable from our national viewpoint, because our land forces are as far ahead of their’s as their integration is ahead of our’s. But they have got organisation, and they are using their air forces according to a well-conceived plan. They are likely, before very lony bv sheer experience. also to accumulate in the Pacific a fine fighting force of ground troops Accordingly, when they can no longer rely on their superiority of numbers, as hitherto, they will make it up by intelligence. Therein the American troops are much superior to the Japanese.” Predicting further great achievements in the near future in the South, Central and North Pacific, Captain Falls says: “The American plan has been bold, and its execution has matched the conception. In their aim to cut off the Japanese from their conquered resources, the Americans have not subscribed to the facile! view that the Japanese can be bombed into submission, or that the Pacific is the only area for air warfare.