Word: attacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moment the button was pressed. The great offensive in the War of Nerves mounted to its climax. The pressure on the Poles to give way, on Great Britain and France to give in, was at its height. Down through the Balkans, through Hungary, Rumania, a flank attack was launched. The button that Fuhrer Hitler had to press was the announcement that Joachim von Ribbentrop was flying to Moscow to sign a non-aggression pact with Russia. At midnight, irresistible hour to lovers of mystery, the Fuhrer pressed the button...
...Attack vs. Defense
...Harlow system and a fleet set of backs will give Harvard an unbeatable attack, If given some measure of support by the line. Blocking is an obvious weakness of this year's backfield . . . its inexperienced line is an unknown quantity...
German strategy is necessarily to attack on one front and stand on the defensive on the other. In 1914 the Germans chose to fight first in the west, failed there, then concentrated on winning a victory in the east before turning to the west again. Now faced with the Maginot Line and the modern French army, Germany may reverse her former plan, strike first in the east, giving her airfleet the job of hanging her western enemies...
...logic cannot predict where the next battles will be fought because: i) military men are often stupid, and 2) each side is trying to outguess the other and knows that the least likely point of attack is often the most profitable. Today General Staffs have the map of Europe spread before them and are playing a shell game with one another. Instead of three shells, however, they have half-a-dozen, each covering one of Europe's theatres of war. Not till the big guns blow the shells to bits will anyone know under which shell lies...