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that could handle our entire stock in a short time "could thus-end the
war, !we are engaging in wishful thinking and wasting our substance.,
Beyond this, if we are building bombers to carry ordinary high ex-
plosives to industrial targets we, are certainly livingin the past, Along
with a reevaluation- of this matter should go intense effort on every
new and promising device which will enhance our :ability to penetrate,
without devoting effort to.the fantastic.
  But -trategic bombing is not the sole responsibiiJty of tihe Air Force.
There are others, and as the scene shifts they increase in importance#
They have been neglected. This may be no more the fault of the Air
Force .than of national thinking generally, but it is time we snapped
out of it. The war is not going to be won by the Air ,Force alone, but by
the Army, Navy, andAir Force in collaboration and concert.
  We cannot win a war and emerge in sound condition without ade-
quate armies of our own and of our Allies to hold a line, preserve in-
dustrial power for our use, and furnish a secure base for later advance.
A modern army cannot fight a modern war without adequate tactical
air support in all its mmany phases. We have no tactical air force worthy
of the name, nor have our Allies. Our enemy has always placed great
weight on tactical air and is doing so now. We cann"ot 'allow our armies
or those of our Allies -o fight without Such support or they,will be
overwhelmed. We had better get at it. It will require more than a system
by which the Air Force supplies the Army with such cover of this sort
as it thinks the Army needs.
  We have to look to our home defense, for we cannot ignore A-bombs
in enemy hands. In so ,doing the primary principle should be that we
will not be delud~edby a Maginot Line complex. An attempt-to defen"d
every point in this country fully could 'bankrupt us !and moreo~ver
could never be successful. But there are new forms of radar, new
guided missiles, new antia'ircraft rockets, new ways of handling Ainter-
ceptors. With-careful planning we can do a reasonable job, and not at'
tempt the extreme job 1   hýat would wreck us. I warn against
overburdening eth  economy and impairing the offensive if there is
clamor for extreme measures for home defense. We must remember
that our forward line 'is in' Europe, and that no war 'was ever won by
remaining on the defensive. Still I would rather see aan adequate radar
defense network than a televiSion set in every .home, which seems to be
about what we are go ingtoI get.
  'The Air Force needs to do a thorough job of re-evaluation :and soul'
searching. It has got to get ,down to earth in doing so-in,'a real senseI
Moreover, it must be in the position of having to substantiate its pro-
grams before a tribunal competent and willing to judge them from
every angle ona ruthlesSly an:alytical and factualtbasis. This applies to
every Service, of, Bcourse.'Butit applies particularly to the Air Force,
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