European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 9, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes an interview with general Eisenla cites Allied Harmony during world War editors note Kanum in the torrid to Day can speak a rift such authority us Gen Eue Shouer on the tale of co where different military serv ices Are his experience coders not Only the coordination of Stacy and air Force of our in bar also Ike armanig together of the forces of Allied the general responded to m Asci Mariott to visit the conference roams of wets world report and answer the questions of its editors on some of the Basic Prince pets of inter serine the Ove Shotis Ecith i Are the printed Here by Courtesy thetes 4 world m in dependent weekly Magarine or notional Itema Tihomil published at copy Toht 1959 United serotes o the popular general b that in Europe you had a More effective coordination of the three armed services than existed in other Aten what lesson can lie derived from that experience a there were not present with us seme of the causes that might have led to friction in other for example the second the Soldier went ashore in Europe a general started there is another system under which the Navy stays in charge of men going ashore As it is the army can take feasible this difference grows oat of differences in under some the Sec Ond arrangement is but because it introduces a by two men to be based upon judgment As to feast friction can easily in other operating forces often were a Long Way from their top on the other could always be right next to toy com there was no Chance for an argument to build up they could Call Over to me and say what do you want us to do now and hence there were i some of the causes of from the beginning in the Pacific there were two separate Heaters of operation one from Australia and one from we did not have that to contend with in so i should certainly be the last to maintain that there was any special qualification or any special Genius in this problem in we probably did not have As difficult a Situa o did the Navy cooperate freely with you a at the beginning of the when i was designated As the european com Admiral Ernest King chief naval 193245 called me we sat in his office and he look this is the first attempt in Amer ican history to operate combined forces under the principle of single f we have talked about some meaningless words called Paramount he i want you to As far As the Navy is youre in command As Long As youre in it was then that he invited me to wire him directly if i Ever saw any trouble with any part of the i think it was just a slip of a pen we were suddenly to lose All of our naval staff officers except i wired Admiral King and the order was countermanded in 20 our except for were chiefly ground and naval losses and Day byway functioning were not an intimate part of our activities but the naval Rote was dear and and naval failure would have meant failure for o Doest vie net difficulty arise in in Dettt Anding of the word Bat  of Fifie armed forces what realty Lipfin Neft in your operation a of if you have peo ple working together As partners and in proper there Are a few questions that have to be referred else where for 1 think there is one principle that plies with any combined i am sure it applies with an Allied the principle is that you really must build your Way into when you Start m youve got to do a lot of urging and but finally there conies a time when everybody suddenly realizes that this machine is working pretty there is built gradually for the Allied team that same kind of loyalty that you have for your own division or your own governments get Confidence in the Headquarters and its and once that Confidence is built your recognized right to Issue which you could not possibly have issued a few months becomes quite for the highest British officials told me several times in the Early Days of our plan to invade Normandy please remember that any officer of the British forces serving under you is there because you taunt any expression of dissatisfaction on your part will be instant cause for his you could not have imagined such a statement being made to any Allied com Mander on the first Day we started off to at toe beginning we Are All imbued with the thought my duty is to protect my country against mis ally Here and that ally since i saw that attitude disappear in War i think that finally there is going to disappear a mans belief that his primary duty is to protect his service against the decisions of the whole Security q would that be helped if we Mads the three services divisions of one service a i do not think i think that in arguing these details of organization we Are just setting up Straw men to it is not for me to but i say this anyone who is really interested in our country Security can help a lot by be ginning to express Confidence in the theory and say weve had All sorts of trouble and we do not Tor a minute be Lieve that any single person has been to we take Back nothing weve urged in the but the time has come to Hammer on the constructive Side for the that is what i and i believe it so thoroughly that i did not want to go before the House armed services com Mittee last the authorities in so i came i i wont talk about this there has been enough name calling and i think this committee As Well As everybody else has got to Start looking toward the for that is ail were really concerned about Why Are we spending this defense Money it is for the it is not to make applicable somebody concept of How i should have used the Navy at or How someone else should have used the army at or somewhere we ought to be turning our eyes to the future with an approach that will help our service staffs to get be like the rest of they Are All they have their Little their stumbling but i have tremendous Confidence in their capacity to do work q int it True that the feeling within me services is that they get along better outside of Washington than they do in Washington Yesse Xera times i have observed that efficiency in unification grows in proportion to the distance you get away from of there is a Here in the National capital is that one great Basic the division of the once you get away from that there is less q a great Many Tayten have advanced the idea of a single service in one what do you think about that a i have often said How Nice it would be if we were All in the same uniform with just differing tabs to distinguish i was Only in somewhat exaggerated to illustrate the spirit that we ought to i certainly believe in the benefits of benefits of but what we must do is never carry those things too far and not be arbitrary about we should keep our traditional remember this when you get nigh enough up in you cannot have a mind that is technically trained in All the specialities Vou must for sex the highest command in this last War Roosevelt and or Churchal Roosevelt May have read some naval history and Churchill was once a Young cavalry but that was the extent of their professional Mili tary yet in the final analysis they made the highest military As Long a your viewpoint is Broad enough you do not have to worry too much about professional or technical training in top As theater of it did not make any for that i didst know How to shoot the latest artillery piece in order to be Able to use the Broad jaws of strategy Are roughly the Broad Laws of you might when you begin to talk about cooperation and concentration and really you Are talking about the Way you handle the affairs of your you merely Are following certain commonsense rules feat somebody who called himself a scholar codified and called principles of they some times make me you break at least one of those principles every time Yon fight a 0 do you think the Public is conscious of the enormous increase in costs of every thing the armed services have to have a when we begin to compare costs these Days with those of the we make the mistake of just comparing i sometimes wonder whether ice  Stop calling them donors and Call them As to con vey the idea we Are not talking about the same thing we did in 19391 but i do believe mat something could be done toward educating the Public by just carrying the Price tag of some when we talk about a great big b38 or a p85 or s6 or whatever it or an aircraft or anything or the Cost of keeping a regiment through a we should just put the Price tag on what it now costs compared with a comparable thing in q there ate Only so Many dollars to spend in any and those dollars must be divided Between three must they not a that right i feel that in our serv ices we have today the bes educated group of military people that this world has there is something a Lite bit haywire that makes it difficult for them to work i am quite sure that they in the Are going to discover that they Are not quite doing their very Best to work when they do it will be 1 think that All must Retreat from the extremes if it is to be a Way will finally be found Down the Broad Middle of common logic and conciliation mat will be i do not mean to say we Are Ever going to end All q you mean arguments within me services a within each of we Are always going to be dealing in q what do you mean by deficits a deficits under a professionally calculated Force or i am not speaking of strength to assure absolute because All of us Are smart enough to realize that there is no such thing As absolute safety in but there is a very definite relative Security mat you can professional calculation As to the total that prudence requires for relative secur Ity will never be in its aggregate by the dollars mat we can reasonably make available in time of year after you have to do the Best you there must be a Compromise Between endurable Cost and what you would really like to q How much weight has Ever been Given in councils of that sort to the principle of a nucleus from which you can expand in War and How much has been Given to aft idea that you must be ready at Ait lines a the More nearly that the unit about which you Are speaking becomes a merely operated by instead of men carrying the Battle directly to the that ratio you become committed to the Force in you cannot build a warship in a and you cant build an air plane in a for there want a single air plane used by the american forces m combat in world War been designed before the design was on the Dran the War there and air forces stress business of Force in b the danger of a by the initial blows of the Skeleton Force i uppermost in the a Small nucleus that can like the you k for that More in the a in the other two that the other fellow More ready at the mom q in recent discuss a Gan tation Hast there be interest in tactical air for troops a in Public discus have but it is a a important to All of at which time v was a very grave Lack o you realize that in i with its supporting air Factor i pen Sable As was the Campaign was a Contrine chief Battle assets air forces and sensitive to tactical air during the War ands heard no Lack of disc vital but Agai matter of that you believe a pan Lef s again centers of a potential i really grave deterrent while youre doing some May finally have Tecu of a fighting pc favor of the big s struggling to get what y need on d Day and with damage to things 1 will cot be vital o we have been Tou not interchangeable As and Lac Cal 3 have to be developed that Hue a i think mat is 1 i know that we finest ship Sou could lines was the equipped foe support bomb under each Wing into attack i go More and More to ten powered fighter planes Are going to have up ground but there it