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ineffective in keeping hostile attack away it was the best organization possible and still is. In the day time the system functioned in a similar manner except that the balloon barrage was lowered, the searchlights did not function, and the pursuit was pushed out to the outer cannon line.

In these days of the aerial torpedo, the gliding bomb and the massed air attack, persons must not be deluded into thinking these methods are effective, as all of them can be easily counteracted by an alert and effective air force. The only successful strategy in the air is to seize the power of initiative, maintain it, and force the enemy to a strategical defensive. The policy of having several organizations under separate commands participate in the defense against aircraft cannot work in war. It must be entirely under the air force.

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