CHANGES IN WARFARE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26543, 19 August 1947, Page 5

CHANGES IN WARFARE

COMBATING MODERN WEAPONS DISCUSSIONS BY SERVICE CHIEFS N.Z.P.A. Special Correspondent Rec. 9 p.m. LONDON, Aug. 18. New Zealand and other dominion,, army, air force and naval liaison officers are among those attending a conference at Old Sarum Royal Air Force station near Salisbury, where, under the leadership of the Chief of Air Staff, Lord Tedder, high-ranking officers of all the three services have been discussing the changes imposed upon the armed forces by the djscovery of atom weapons, guided projectiles

and the possibility of bacteriological warfare. They are also studying in detail the conduct of the combined Allied bomber offensive from January, 1943, to the end of the war and the lessons deduced from it. “Some time ago someone invented gun powder, which revolutionised warfare. Now someone has invented the atom bomb. It has revolutionised technical warfare, but war still remains the business of human affairs,” said Lord Tedder. “We are studying human affairs as affected by air power I have a healthy respect for the atom, but let us keep 'technical affairs in their proper place. Push-button warfare is in the bag, but I am not in danger of thinking too much about what has happened in the past. Peace without power is’a dream—l will go further and say that it is a nightmare.”