SECRET OF SUCCESS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 June 1941, Page 6

SECRET OF SUCCESS

HITLER'S INVASION TACTICS. ‘‘lf you examine Hitler's campaigns in Illis war. you will find, contrary to expectation, that—apart from the magnetic mine, which was soon answered —there have been no new secret weapons, al though there have indeed been big developments of old oner.” said Mr W. J. Brown in a recent address. "The secret of the success of the German campaigns on the Continent has lain in a combination and co-ordination of four elements: a combination which is. indeed. Hitler's persona! contribution to the science of modern war. The four elements are: first, a great increase in the speed of military operations; second, the use of Quislings and traitors inside the country which is being attacked; third, the use of a dozen different, and often contradictory, lines of propaganda Io cause doubt, confusion, and hesitation in the opposing population; fourth, the deliberate breaking down of the economic and social life of the civilian population of the opposing country. Now we in Britain may face, within a matter of weeks and days, rather than of months, the threat of attempted invasion. No one can tell you what its precise form will be. nor al what point, or points, it will bo directed. But this at least can be said with, complete certainty. The attack will represent, in essentials, a combination of the four elements 1 have mentioned above. Hiller learnt those elements in his struggle fori power in. Germany. He has applied them in his European campaigns, and he knows no other."