NEW MILITARY POLICY

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 354, 8 February 1937, Page 6

NEW MILITARY POLICY

SOVIET DECISION. ARTICLES OF WAR. Condition Of Victory Is Hostile Army Press Association—Copyright. Moscow, February 7. M. Voroshiloff, War Commissar, writing in the Izvestia, discloses a Soviet new military policy known as the 1936 Articles of War, replacing those of 1929. The articles emphasise that the infantry is the spearhead of all armed activity and that all other units must co-operate with the infantry, especially the air force, which must operate on the widest scale with a view to destroying enemy artillery. “The most important condition of victory is the drawing of the workers and peasants of a hostile army into a proletarian revolution, which can be attained by the political work of the commander-in-chief, officers and political agents,” the articles add. “The Red Army must be generous towards a captured enemy and assist in preserving his life.” The articles declare that Russia will never instigate war but that «.ny attack will be repulsed by all Russia’s might, the war being immediately carried into the assailant’s territoryl. ,