NEW MILITARY POLICY
SOVIET’S ARTICLES OF WAR
DISCLOSED BY COMMISSAR (United Press Association) {By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) MOSCOW, Feb. 7. (Reecived Feb. 7, at 10.35 p.m.) M. Voroschiloff, the War Commissar, writing in Izvestia, discloses a new military policy, known as the 1936 Articles of War, replacing those of 1929. The articles emphasise infantry as the spearhead of all armed activity, and all other units must co-operate with the infantry especially the air force, which must operate on the widest scale with a view to destroying enemy artillery. “A most important condition of victory is drawing workers and peasants of a hostile army into a proletarian revolution, which can be attained by the political work of the commander-in-chief, officers and political agents, while the Red Army must be generous towards a captured enemy and assist to preserve his life.” The articles declare that Russia will never instigate war, but any attack will be repulsed by all Russia’s might, with war being immediately carried into the assailants’ territory.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23109, 8 February 1937, Page 9
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