-75used, even by the power which enjoys air superiority. And while the armed forces mast still prepare against the possibility that atomic bombs will not be used in another war--a situation which might permit full mobilization of the national resources in the traditional manner--they must be at least equally ready to fight a war in which no such grand mobilization is permitted, /s The forces which will carry on the war after a largotscale/atonic bomb | attack may be divided into three main categories according to their respective functions. The first category will comprise the force reserved for the retal- iatory attacks with atomic bombs; the second will have the mission of invading and occupying enemy territory; and the third will have the purpose of resisting enemy invasion and of organizing relief for devastated areas. Professional mil- itary officers will perhaps be less disturbed at the absence of any distinction between land, sea, and air forces than they will be at the sharp distinction between offensive and defensive functions in the latter two categories, In the past it was more or less the same army which was either on the offensive or the defensive, depending on its strength and on the current fortunes of war, but, for reasons which will presently be made clear, a much sharper distinction between offensive and defensive forces seems to be in prospect for the future. The force delegated to the retaliatory attack with atomic bombs will have to be maintained in rather sharp isolation from the national commmity. Its func- tions must not be compromised in the slightest by the demands for relief of struck areas. Whether its operations are with aircraft or rockets or both, it will have to be spread over a large nurmbcr of widely dispersed reservations, each ‘of considerable area, in which the bombs and their carriers are sccreted and as far as possible protected by storage underground, These reservations will of course have a completely integrated and independent system of intcr-conmmunication, and the commander of the force should heve a sufficient autonomy of authority to be able to act as soon as he has established the fact that the country is being hit with atomic bombs, He should not have to wait for orders which may never be \ '