PACIFIC TACTICAL PROBLEM
ON WAY TO SOLUTION New York, Feb. 4. The tactical problem presented by the bloody losses at Tarawa has been successfully solved at Kwajalein, says the “Herald-Tribune,” in an editorial. The combination of local surprise and overwhelming firepower and new methods with weapons, proved sufficient. We now have a mobile striking force against which the Japanese have found no local defence. At the same time the larger strategic problem in the Pacific seems well on the way. to solution. Against overwhelming command of the sea and air the inter-related island defence system which the Japanese flung around her stolen empire. simply falls apart. A series of bases like those of the Marshalls. each planned to support others, is strong while linked together with sea and air power, but when that goes each base is isolated and helpless, and the strength of the whole evaporates. A demonstration of that fact is likely to be soon repeated much nearer the main centre.*: cf Japanese power.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 5 February 1944, Page 5
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