DEFENCE TACTICS.
COUNTER-OFFENSIVE METHOD. TECHNIQUE IN THE AIR. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Nov. 19. The Air Minister (Sir E. Kingsley Wood), in a speech today, referred to suggestions that the Government’s proposal to increase the fighter strength of the Royal Air Force meant a reversal of policy and a falling back on purely defensive strategy. “It is perhaps the case,” he said, “that there has been in the past a tendency to overstate the argument that the bomber will always get through, and also to lay undue stress on the claim that a counter-of-fensive is the only effective means ol defence in the air. “Developments in recent years have undoubtedly tended to reduce the supremacy of the offensive and add to the strength of the defensive in air, and we have naturally adapted our tactical and strategic policy in the light of recent developments in the technique of modern warfare. “But that does not mean for one moment that the time has arrived when we can contemplate relying for air defence exclusively on our fighter aircraft and our ground defences. Counter-offensive remains and must remain an essential component of our defence.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 303, 21 November 1938, Page 7
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