Show U. U S. S Army Steps On the Gas NAPOLEON NAPOLEON is credited with coining the thea a maxim famous for many years in military lore that an army travels on its stomach That was undoubtedly true in Napoleons Napoleon's day and for many years before and since but today there is every reason to believe that the s need of an army for food has taken secondary place Armies today travel more on wheels than on feet and are therefore more dependent on the gasoline oil tires and mechanical efficiency efficiency effi effi- which make the wheels go round than they are on the food which goes into the stomach stomach ach and thus makes the feet keep plodding along Some figures of the U. U S. S army reveal how rapidly this change in mode of travel travel from from feet to wheels wheels has has come about Just two years ago the total number of quartermaster motor vehicles in the army was about Today there are and by next fall there will be quartermaster vehicles in the army which is the number needed for the transport and supply of an army of men Incidentally its it's interesting to note that as asa asa asa a result of this shift to wheels about a third of a modern army is required merely to keep the wheels moving Of the man army we will have next fall all equipped with wheels about men will be drivers and mechanics to keep the trucks tanks passenger cars and motorcycles rolling along Theres There's one precept of military strategy that hasn't changed however as the result of all this mechanization Its It's just been accelerated accelerated as armies step on the gas That is the precept that the battle is won by the side which gits with the men That was true in Napoleons Napoleon's time as it was in the Civil war as it surely is today today only only years ago an army got the jump on the enemy by a forced march of 20 or 30 miles and now it gets the jump by a blitzkrieg march on wheels of or even or miles |