AIR STRATEGY
BOMBERS AND FIGHTINCPLANES STATEMENT BY BRITISH MINISTER. COUNTER-OFFENSIVE REMAINS IMPORTANT. (British Official Wireless., RUGBY, November 19. The Air Minister, Sir Kingsley Wood, in a speech today referred to suggestions that the Govenment’s proposal to increase the fighter strength of the Royal Air Force meant a reversal oi policy and a falling back on purely defensive strategy. “It is perhaps the- case.” he said, “that there has been in the past a tendency to overstate the argument that the bomber will always get through and also to lay undue stress on tne claim that a counter-offensive is the only effective means of defence in the air. “Developments in recent years undoubtedly tended to reduce the supremacy of the offensive and add to the actual strength of the defensive in air and we naturally adapted our tactical and strategic policy in the ligh' of recent developments in the technique of modern warfare. “But that does not mean for one moment that the time has arrived when we can contemplate relying for air defence exclusively on our fighter aircraft and our ground defences. Counter-offensive remains and must remain an essential component of our defence’.” '
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 November 1938, Page 5
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