Article: the last war

Article: the last war

Short comparison of forces numbers between the First and Second World Wars.

One newspaper cutting

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The Last War

This is four millions more and a substantially larger proportion of the whole population (50 per cent., against 43 per cent.) than in 1918.

The numbers in the Services are, however, only a little larger than last time and are a slightly smaller proportion of our total man-power.

For this there are two reasons.

One is that this is a more highly mechanised war, and therefore, in spite of labour-saving devices, it requires more labour in the factory to equip and maintain each fighting unit.

The other is that we are helping to equip very large forces