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CAN GERMANY INVADE ENGLAND?
not only six times 25,000 fighting men, but six times 16,000 non-combatants, six times 13,000 horses, six times 144 guns, and six times 2,200 vehicles, or
| Troops | 150,000 |
| Non-Combatants | 96,000 |
| Horses | 78,000 |
| Guns | 864 |
| Vehicles | 13,200 |
I can imagine that this table will be received with an outcry of protestation.
"What, 96,000 non-combatants to 1 50,000 troops! 78,000 horses, 13,200 vehicles! The thing is monstrous! We never allowed for such superfluities!
True, the men who have found satisfaction in terrifying themselves and others with visions of 150,000 German soldiers landing on our coast one day, and marching on London the next, never have made any allowance for non-combatants, nor for carts and wagons, nor for horses to draw them; yet non-combatants and carts and wagons
