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Show 'GENERAL M'COMB DECLARES FOR AN ADEQUATE ARMY I WASHINGTON. .Jan. C2. Nat i-mnl i po I i ctf" nf th-"- Cni;H Stri.tfs. particularly ' u'-i" nt .:;.! ii'-"1 of tin- Mi.:oe doctrinp. an j o"'!i door in the r'."H t . supre ma-y in j the i'aume and Asiatic cx'-'lution, uii be upheld only if backed by force. Brigadier Briga-dier General Montgomery M. McComb, proyidenL of the army war college, told the .senate military committee today. The tradition that entangling alliances should be avoided, he declared, further emphasized em-phasized the necessity that the TTnited States be prepared to fisht alone for its ideals. "Unless there Is force behind these policies," he said, "they "ill not play an important part in the history of the workl." General McComb. who appeared at a ; hearing nr. the army increase measures. suggested tha t the Monroe doctrine was I tending toward development of a Pan- 1 American entente, which "might or might not be a good thing." but did not alter, in his opinion, the urgent necessity of military preparedness. War College Policies. General McComb said the war college had takeri the policies he mentioned as the basis of its study to formulate a definite military policy. With these obligations in mind, he added, the college col-lege had produced the plan already made public for a regular army of :.ikJ(000 men, with the colors or reserve within eight years and a continental army of a million mil-lion men in the same time. Brigadier General Albert U. Mills, chief of the war department division of military affairs, preceded General McComb and indorsed the plans proposed by secretary Garrison, which, are a modification of the war college col-lege proposals. He said inherent difficulties diffi-culties in the way of using organized militia in place of a continental army seemed insurmountable, and outlined many faults of the na liona 1 guard system sys-tem from a na t iona 1 point of view. Among these v ere lack of proper re-servos re-servos to supply war wastage, lark of auxiliary arms, inadequate training, constantly con-stantly "changing person p - and lack of uniformity of si a to militia .nuVs. "Those conditions produce," said General Gen-eral Mills. "I'orty-fUlU lit'le slate armios. organised without re fore nee lu national needs, and each din dug jealously t certain statf rights." General .M.'onh dif'forod with a recent statement of th-"- adjutant central thjit 1 -iO.'i'iO men was l hp la r-zost fore:- t !;; i i -on Id bo ma in lained under p" sont enlist en-list mont rfsnln tinns. "lie slates that it is impo-siM- t,1 i''1-' i''1-' (.rnit more nitii than that," Gcneial Mc Comb said, "but that is only Ins opinion. He does not know what he can do beyond be-yond that, for he has not tried." Judging from his experience aa a military mili-tary observer in the Russian -Japanese war. General McComb said, most people utterly miscalculated the amount of training necessary for an infantry soldier. On the infantry, he said, depends the final outcome of any fight. He estimated It would take two years of five hours' intensive work a day "to make what we call a good soldier." |