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Show AIR WAR HELD TOO EXPENSIVE WASHINGTON, Oct. An army antiaircraft expert, surveying military lessons of modern warfare, has concluded that "airplanes can be stopped " Major Robert N. Markln wrote today in the Coast Artillery journal that a well-organised defense of cities, air fields and other strategic points would "make air attacks by the enemy so costly In men and machines ma-chines as to shortly causa them to cease altogether." Antiaircraft weapons, properly employed, he said, "can Insure the safety of the great mass of our civilian population and limit aerial warfare to the zone of operation of the fighting ground forces. "The bombing of Madrid proper has been an entire waste of strength by tha insurgent air forces," he said. |