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Show U, 5. TO PROTECT SILLJAT1S MONROE DOCTRINE TO BE UPHELD UP-HELD BY NAVY EQUAL TO THAT OF ANY WORL DPOWER. I , Possibility of Combined Attack in Future Fu-ture by Two Foreign Powers Considered Con-sidered by Military Strategists in Their Plans. Washington. Possibility of a combined com-bined attack by two foreign powers to break down the new pan-American doctrine doc-trine evolved from maintenance by the United States and acceptance by South and Central American republics repub-lics of the Monroe doctrine is one of the fundamental bases for the national defense plans formulated by army and navy strategists. They believe it essential in the formulation for-mulation of a national military policy, it is learned, to provide against the eventuality of an assault upon the doctrine by either an Asiatic or a European power, or even by an allf ance of two such powers, which might hurl forces simultaneously at the Atlantic At-lantic and Pacific coasts. A navy equal in strength to those of any two world powers, except Great Britain, and an army prepared to fight for the integrity of the pan-American idea anywhere in pan-America is the ultimate aim of the plans of the military mili-tary experts. Ten years is the time the navy general gen-eral board believes the United States has in which to prepare for a readjustment readjust-ment of world forces which will follow the European w'ar. In setting 1925 as the time when the United States navy should equal any afloat which means reaching the two-power standard of the British navy, the board estimated that much time would elapse before the shock of' the present war passed sufficiently to permit any of the belligerents bel-ligerents to look to South and Central America for colonial development or trade aggression. Plans of the army war college would be consummated in six years. The army officers take the position tl;at the United States must have sufficient suf-ficient troops and troop ships to land forces in any threatened pan-American country to meet an invader. |