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Show SUGGESTIONS OF AN AMERICAN MILITARY MILI-TARY EXPERT. An American military expert suggests that "the infantryman of the future may be n man with n machine gun, n lot of hand grenades and n short blnded sword, like that carried by the ancient Roman soldiers.'' It doesn't seem a very fanciful picture, either to nnybody who carefully follows the shifting tactics of wnr. The rifle has lost its prestige. It is no longer the fndispens-able fndispens-able weapon-of the infantryman. It is'nt always effective even in n churgc, for we rend nowadays of soldiers leaving their guns behind them in the trenches nnd charging only with hnnd grenades. It Is of little use for defense, for one machine gun is worth as much in repelling nn nttnek ns n hundred hun-dred rifles. Tho bayonet hasn't lost its usefulness, useful-ness, but even that is being replaced, In the French army, by a knife or shortblndcd sword. Tho machine gun is coming to be the nrm of the infantry. The Gcrmnns, who hnve made best use of it, have perfected a type so small and light that ono man can carry it on his back, nnd enn opcrnte it alone when ho sets it down. If the tendency is carried to Its logical completion, and every soldier is nrmed with a machine gun Instead In-stead of a rifle, what chance will nny man have for his life against nny other mnn7 Imagine every citizen in Eastern Utah hunting his neighbor neigh-bor with n gntling gun, with dynnmitc shells bursting nil around. That's what war seems to bo coming to. |