EXPERT KNOWLEDGE NEEDED.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 4, 8 December 1915, Page 4

EXPERT KNOWLEDGE NEEDED.

No ivar in history ever so much needed expert knowledge for its conduct as that now in progress ; and of all the contending nations, no one needs to have its forces in charge of a General Staff, with a scientific knowledge of war, s o much as Great Britain, for its operations are scattered over a wider geographical area than those of any ono of the Allies, says a writer in "Life." If Lord Kitchener had been consulted as to the best organisation for the efficient conduct of the war, lie certainly would not have recommended a!committee consisting of a score of clover talkers, each of \, whom had .gained eminence by gifts" of speech. He would have insisted on the actual conduct of the war, both as .to strategy and tactics, being under the control of a General Staff, tv tiny group of the best military and naval experts of the Empire, each of whom had a scientific and practical knowledge of war. Yet Gresit Britain has no General Staff—only a Cabinet of politicians grouped into a tangle of committees.