Show pwfsswpwgsi tfbc Suit £nkc tribune- Friday Morning By Frederic Mahan’s Sea Control Theory Needs Reconsideration in View of Air Power Capacities "Japan must be bombed to defeat ” The ?kagerrak airpower chal-leg- e to seapow er of seapower by land-base- t the defeat er air-pow- d the attempted Norwegian invasion the defeat of d by the American arpower and the spitting Image of all the aboe in the in sea-po- fr land-base- American airpower victory oer seapower at Midway hae Jsp tven repeatedly stressed in ths eo-T- n The reasor for the these emphasis epochaJ episodes is not for the purpose of cultivating greater prestge for airpower in the public mnd so much as it is aimed at exposing the vital necessity ffecLrg aweepirg and daring revision in our strategy and in cur conceptions as to what it takes and how to win this war When this war began far too nary people believed that overwhelm irg naval superiority — a ionty consisting of more warships warships greater— warship gun broadside power could hold the balance of world power That for the purpose of this discussion can rightly be regarded as the theory cf the great naval writer Rather than a Mahan theory' it was Mahan’s sound principle of the manner in which and the aeaa could be dominatedconsecontrolled And as a quence of controlling the seas the nation having overwhelming type of weapon superiority m the to effect this control could and would hold the balance of world power The engineering and rrechanl- on petitive cal world of Mahan's day exswift hibited the heavy-gunne- d warship as its prized aea weapon which eventuated into the battleship colossus of our day But and our speedy cruiser mind you Admiral Mahan a Ipgical and sound thinker wrote and spoke of the weapons available and ready to go into action uuat that time Little did he dream that the submarine would one day prove to be a critical menace to steelLittle did he sided warships dream and indeed he could act be charged with having failed to dream of the winged weapon of our age which we know as e the heavy bomber and the deadly torpedo plane Mahan like all great thought leaders of all time built the power so caretheory of naval fully and so brilliantly on the records of history that lesser hands accepted his teachings as the last word on the method of controlling the sea — 1 or all time ic long-rang- greater Ad-rur- 'Villiamr then-fantast- re- Principles never principles — fundamental change It is the application of principles that does change And since the principles were formulated by Admiral Mahan for seapower domination of the ocean’s highways w'ould it not be logical to view the development of the sea war machinery from the worship to al im 11 Old Hatreds Weaken Near East Air Power By Major Al July io - the bombing plane as a new application of his principles For instance seapower differing essentially from airpower in its capacity to stay put to even anchor and thus remain in control of a given sea zone was fundamentally dependent upon There Is little question that the (irnnans have rKnrdKl Kgypt and the middle east aa one of the most strategic areas of the war The same pyramids which Impressed Napoleon when he told his men: “Twenty centuries look dowm upon us!” may witness battles which will decide whether the world will be slave or free The Germans have never for- - strategically located bases at which it could replenish its fuel food ammunition and general supplies Thus seapower was visualized as an agency which could be fully effective only if it were netprovided with a w'orld-wid- e work of suitable bases so strategically located as to conform to its cruising range and closely adjacent to geographical bottlenecks through which the world's shipping was compelled to pass In other words seapower was provided with a world system of hasps thus enabling it to operate efficiently within that system Neither Mahan nor any of his students on naval affairs d were enough to visualize or dream of a seapower based solely in England or any one central point Regard for Instance the w’isdom of the creators of British seapower in securipg such strategically - located ocean “passes” (one might so call them) as Gibraltar at the entrance of the Mediterranean Suez the eastern bottleneck of the same sea Singapore which dominated the narrow waters of the Malacca straits and the Falklands controlling shipping circling the southern tip of South America These are just a few of the bases long since laid out and provided by the creators of seapower Distributed by United Features Syndicate Inc short-sighte- world-domina- nt Ganzert gotten Egypt and the lands to the east the rough triangle between the eastern Mediterranean the Black aea and the Indian ocean For centuries this served as highway between Europe and the far east and In the in present struggle its remaining the hands of the allies may mean life or death to Russia and China as well as freedom to India In allied hands the middle east will serve to keep Hitler and the Japanese apart and also will enable the British to continue their only active fighting front against the axis If Egypt falls into the hands Of the axis Hitler will have the cotton and wheat and newdy discovered iron and chrome deposits in the vicinity of the Assuan dam American supply bases in Eritrea and Basra may be destroyed and the way will be opened to the strategic middle east The great conflict now centering in western Egypt will be determined by superior equipment and above all generalship yet German propaganda efforts in the Moslem world indicate the importance of Egyptian home affairs The Germans have spent millions of reichsmarks in these lands in an effort to turn the Egyptians and other Arab peoples against the British while a constant tirade against the Anglo-Saxo- n “oppressors” of the Mohammedan peoples has poured from axis radio stations especially from the powerful Italian station at Bari The Berlin station boasts a Moslem a disgruntled “Lord Haw-Haw- ” former Bagdad newspaperman with a fine delivery who pictures Hitler as a descendant of the Prophet and an avowed “redeemer” of Islam Hitler still recalls that his climb to power in Germany was based on being all things to all people If this worked in Germany why not laewhere ? 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