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No one thinks that the age of missile warfare will come all at once. It will Develop gradually, painfully and expensively, with many costly mistakes. There will never be a golden age of push-button war, with the U.S. getting all the victories and the enemy getting all the grief. The older weapons, including the small-arms of the infantry, will still be needed, and must not be neglected. The Russians undoubtedly have missiles too. They captured thousands of German V-2 men and put them to work at once.
The missilemen seem to love their roaring, destructive birds. They admire their naked grace and praise the flash-quick cleverness of their electronic brains. But in their more reflective moments, they are likely to quote or paraphrase an aphorism which they attribute to Einstein: "If World War III is fought with atom-armed missiles, then World War IV will be fought with clubs."
*A compromise of military terminology between the Army's "ground-to-air" and the Navy's "ship-to-air," now agreed upon by all services.