I believe in the future great
wars--if indeed there are to be any more great wars following after this
one--that the nations involved, instead of buttoning their frontiers
down with great fortresses and ringing their principal cities about with
circles of protecting works, will put their trust more and more in
transportable cannon of a caliber and a projecting force greater than
any yet built or planned. I make this assertion after viewing the
visible results of the operations of the German 42-centimeter guns in
Belgium and France, notably at Liege in the former country and at
Maubeuge in the latter.
Except for purposes of frightening non-combatants the Zeppelins
apparently have proved of most dubious value; nor, barring its value as
a scout--a field in which it is of marvelous efficiency--does the
aeroplane appear to have been of much consequence in inflicting loss
upon the enemy. Of the comparatively new devices for waging war, the
submarine and the great gun alone seem to have justified in any great
degree the hopes of their sponsors.
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