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it would have no offensive value whatever. At best, observation aviation is only an auxiliary, and therefore should be out down to the lowest possible point commensurate with the necessities in the case, and all personnel and material should be put into the offensive. 

It was decided, therefore, that all observation aviation hereafter should be equipped with airplanes having characteristics of two-seater pursuit and that the personnel should receive training along that line and also a certain amount of bombardment bombardment and attack training; that all aviation, no matter what it is should be placed under the command of the air force during the preliminary stages of the campaign and should be used for the attack of any of the enemy's elements which have been chosen for destruction ahead of time; that, if aviation acts vigorously enough during this and can gain control of air to sufficient extent, in all possibility the armies would never come into contact as the air force alone would decide the war; and that, if the armies did come into contact, then the observation aviation could be assigned to the ground troops wherever necessary and the offensive air force maneuvered against the most dangerous enemy elements.

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