DEFENCE NEEDS
Sir,—ln his letter on defence, "Bren" is all at sea. He makes the old mistake that after a lapiae, say of 20 years, means of defence and attack have stood sfill. The old drill book mentality that cost countless lives in the Great War. Secondly, it was not a gunners' war, as he asserts. It was a gunners', infantrymens', engineers', and in the closing stages, a scientists' war—tanks and chemistry. The only thing it was not, was a cavalrymans' war. Yet both commandeirs-in-chief, French and Haig, and an altogether disproportionate number of the high command, were from the gallant old cavalry school, the "once more into the breach" contingent, with tragic results. Escaped Gunmeat.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22523, 14 September 1936, Page 12
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