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By David R. Mets, Harold R. Winton

ISBN-10: 0803247931

ISBN-13: 9780803247932

The problem of Change examines how army associations tried to satisfy the calls for of the hot strategic, political, and technological realities of the turbulent period among the 1st and moment international Wars. The individuals selected France, Germany, nice Britain, the Soviet Union, and the U.S. as concentration international locations simply because their army associations endeavored to boost either the cloth ability and the conceptual framework for the behavior of recent industrialized struggle on a continental scale.

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26. See the summaries of the chamber debates of 28 February, 2, 10, 16, 22, 29 March, and 20, 27 June 1922 prepared by the National Defense Secretariat in shat 2n201/1. 27. Deputy Henri Lafonte, Débats, Chambre des députés, Journal ofﬁciel de la république française 1870–1940, ﬁrst session, 4 March 1927 (Paris: Chambre des Députés), 488–90. 28. The versions passed by the Chamber and the Senate in 1927 and 1928, respectively, were irreconcilable on this point. 29. The key dates were 10 January 1924 (ﬁrst presentation of the bill to the Chamber of Deputies), 17 February 1928 (Senate passage of a version irreconcilable with that passed by the Chamber), 12 June 1934 (Prime Minister Doumergue’s call for the composition of a revised version), and 11 July 1938 (promulgation of the ﬁnal law).

54 By increasing the number of technically trained specialists needed to meet army requirements, motorization complicated the induction and training of recruits and the distribution of reservists among regiments. Motorization enhanced operational mobility, the ability to move to the battleﬁeld, but it reduced a division’s organic artillery and increased its vulnerability while in transit. 58 Creating motorized infantry formations that were capable of shifting the war’s scene from France to Belgium was a reform that could not take place in isolation.

During the halt at the end of each of the short bounds of methodical battle the large machines would act as magnets, drawing artillery ﬁre upon themselves and the foot soldiers nearby. 72 In the absence of reliable communications tanks did not promise to open the battleﬁeld to ﬂuid, independent operations but intensiﬁed the need for disciplined adherence to prearranged plans. For the tank to introduce a new element of surprise into battle, artillery preparation had to be shortened, with larger numbers of guns massed to achieve the required impact.

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